Le 09/14/03 Chris Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit notamment: > On Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, at 01:13 America/New_York, Jean Magnan de > Bornier wrote: > >> Le 09/14/03 Chris Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit notamment: >> >>> I am just finishing a new install of gentoo sourcces and have emerged >>> xfree, kde, and the ATI drivers. Why is this popping up in the >>> terminal? Better question is why- I haven't installed sendmail? >>> Is it >>> part of KDE? Or is it some other process trying to invoke sendmail and >>> failing? metalog trying to send a message (can it do that)? >>> >>> Odder yet I did a emerge -p unmerge sendmail and it says it isn't >>> installed. >>> >>> Is my computer haunted by a sendmail daemon? >> >> Most probably you have ssmtp installed with a symlink to sendmail, >> so it >> is ssmtp talking to you >> > > Wouldn't ssmtp or sendmail then show up as a process when I type ps -A?
I guess it will show up when actually working as a process; but if it is not you will not see it with this command even if it installed on your system. Why don't you just type ls -l /usr/sbin/sendamil ? If there is a symlink you will see it then. HTH -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94 Port: 06 09 17 35 87 m�l: jm.bornier*at*free.fr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
