Strange email?

[David Curry]

Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:03, David Hoffman wrote:
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>>On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:53:28 -0500, Gene Heskett
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>><gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>>I received this email from my FC2 box this morning.  What can be
>>>made of this?
>>>Site list is missing: mailman
>>>-------------------------
>>>I've not setup mailman to do anything, didn't even know it was
>>>installed, (everything else apparently is using sendmail) but
>>>having it suddenly decide to mail me my passwords would appear to
>>>be one hell of a security breach.
>>>
>>>The only "new" software installed recently have been inhouse built
>>>versions of the utils that come with an pcHDTV-3000 card, and the
>>>boinc/einstein stuffs.
>>>      
>>>
>>The same thing will happen on the first of next month too. Mailman
>>(apparently by default) sends out a password reminder message to all
>>members of a list at the beginning of each month.
>>
>>This message is the result of the cron job that failed because
>>mailman is not configured with any lists. It couldn't find the
>>lists to process password reminders for, so the script died and
>>since you are the admin, you got the message about the cron job
>>failure.
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>Which doesn't really seem to address the issue.  Nothing that should 
>have effected mailman has ever been done here, and thats the first 
>message like that I've ever seen.  I've been using linux exclusively 
>since rh5.1 days.  This upgrade to FC2 is now much of a year old.
>
>Maybe I didn't word the query to the list correctly.  It should have 
>noted that I've done nothing (that I know of) to start mailman, so 
>why, on 1 mar 2005 do I get the message?
>
>The history goes all the way back to april 1997 and its never sent me 
>such an email before.
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Apparently, though, mailman was/is running on your FC2 system, Gene.

Have you

$ ps -A