Re: mail and security
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions
> about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...)
When you tell your email program to send a message, it uses the protocol
SMTP to tell a program running on the server to handle delivery. The
delivery programs are called MTAs - mail transfer agents. exim and
sendmail are just two examples of MTAs.
>
> but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago,
> when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user
> nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should
> change my password.
That's some scripts run daily for system maintenance. No need to worry.
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