[A83] Re: ports (OT)
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[A83] Re: ports (OT)
In accordance with the prophecy, Thomas J. Hruska uttered:
> At 10:53 AM 6/12/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >X-Authentication-Warning: slartibartfast.local: lft owned process doing -bs
> <snip>
> >Linus
>
> What does the above line mean ? I've seen it around before, but it only
> appears when people send mail from Linux-based machines (lft is a username
> on Linus' system, but I never understood what the 'owned process doing -bs'
> part means).
Sendmail adds that line because it (sendmail) was started by the user lft,
instead of root. "-bs" is just a flag given as an argument, i.e. the program was
invoked as "sendmail -bs".
Linus
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