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Date:      Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:53:11 -0600
From:      Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
To:        "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to tell postfix is running?
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020304165000.047bfec0@pop3s.schulte.org>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEKMCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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At 05:42 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
>I installed postfix from ports.
>The install went without a hitch.
>I restarted FBSD and can not see anything with ps ax command.
>
>How can I tell postfix is running?

1) # ps -auxw | grep -i postfix
look for postfix processes such as local, smtpd, cleanup, bounce, master, etc.

2) # telnet localhost 25
look for the postfix banner

3) # echo "postfix test" | mail root
look at the headers for evidence that postfix processed it

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