what process is sending this packet?

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 27 15:15:23 UTC 2010


JB <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sent: Dec 27, 2010 7:45 AM
>To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>Subject: Re: what process is sending this packet?
>
>S Mathias <smathias1972 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25:
>> 
>> Dec 27 14:11:46 a kernel: [ 6336.992320] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1
>DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60
>> ... 
>> but where or how could i find out, that what process sends these packets?
>> 
>
>netstat
>tcpdump
>
Looks like sendmail trying to send a message to a local user.  If you have sendmail disabled, there are other programs that use SMTP to process mail to local mailboxes.

James McKenzie



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