[plug] nasty spammer

[Bill Kenworthy]

man chkconfig Brett.  named does your dns and the on/off is the
runlevels that it is set to work in.  "ps -aux|grep named" is probably
the easiest to find out if its running.

BillK

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 17:19, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Mark Nold wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:51:30 +0800
> > From: Mark Nold <markn at enspace.com>
> > Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: RE: [plug] nasty spammer
> > Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:57:21 +0800 (WST)
> > Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > 
> > sounds good, justto make sure try 
> > 
> > chkconfig --list
> > 
> > (im sure thats the syntax though)
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret at busby.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:39 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: RE: [plug] nasty spammer
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Mark Nold wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > try "named" instead of Bind
> > > 
> > > service named status
> > > chkconfig --list | grep named
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret at busby.net]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:58 PM
> > > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > > Subject: Re: [plug] nasty spammer
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 27 Mar 2002, Jeff wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Your not running Redhat 6.2 with the original bind I hope.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > We are running RH 6.2, on our mail server. 
> > > 
> > > ps -ax | grep 'bind' does not show that we have bind running. I assume
> > > that is the correct synatx, to determine whether bind is running.
> > > 
> > > Postfix sends messages, from time to time, indicating that someone is
> > > trying to use us for relaying.
> > > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > The chkconfig just returns to the prompt; indicating no named ?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I botched it - forgot to telnet to the server; did chkconfig on my box,
> not on the mailserver/gateway.
> 
> chkconfig named on the server, gave a series of numbers, 0-6, with ons and
> offs.
> 
> I could not find an explanation from man named.
> 
> What do the numbers and the on/off switches, represent?
> 
> -- 
> Bret Busby
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