Re: [cobalt-users] Getting Hacked! Please HELP ASAP!

["Vic Chisnell" <vic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mail server start and stop commands  telnet to raq
su to root:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

On 24 Aug 2000, at 15:07, Casselman, Chad wrote:

> Some please tell me what to do!
> 
> All of a sudden I start getting tons of bounce emails that I am not
> sending. I look at top and sendmail is going nutz and sending all
> these emails and most are bouncing.  So someone is using my system to
> spam thousands of people.  How can I turn sendmail off or get to the
> bottom of this.  On top it will pop up every no and then "sendmail
> accepting connection port 25".  I am very dumb with this.
> 
> Some please please help!!
> Thanks,
> chad
> 
> 
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