From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 14:54:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E68537B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from schulte-laptop.nospam.schulte.org (nb-65.netbriefings.com [209.134.134.65]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C5B24491; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:54:21 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020304165000.047bfec0@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:53:11 -0600 To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "FBSDQ" From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: How to tell postfix is running? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message