Re: odd process running /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -CronDaemon -odi -oem root
That is the process that sends out mail for a cronjob. I have had problems
with those getting stuck if the mail message (output from the cron job) is
more than 1 meg I think... it might have been more than 11 megs. I can't
remember exactly but that is a normal process. I don't think it should stay
in your process list for that long though... what does your pstree show?
What is the parent process? you should be able to find out which cron it is
being sent from as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Ebright" <robert@azone.org>
To: <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: odd process running /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -CronDaemon -odi -oem
root
> I have had some problems with attempted hacks on
> my box and posted here the last few days. So
> I've been checking the processing running on my
> box and I see this.
> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 28406 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -i
> -FCronDaemon -odi -oem root
>
> I have postfix installed, and I'm not sure if
> this is a normal thing, or else a rogue process,
> or just a cron job that got stuck. As around the
> sametime my apache and apache-ssl both restarted
> wtih errors below. And this command has been
> running. I looked it up in google and only found
> 4 instances of it, most in other languages so it
> makes me think that it is not a normal process
> that should be running. If someone knows please
> share the info. Thanks for the help.
>
> apache/error.log:[Thu Jun 19 06:27:27 2003]
> [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful
> restart
> apache/error.log:[Thu Jun 19 06:27:28 2003]
> [warn] module config_log_module is already
> loaded, sk
> ipping
>
>
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