Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:21:00 -0500 From: "James A. Arnold" <JArnold@knightridder.com> To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to tell postfix is running? Message-ID: <a0510150ab8a9ab86f359@[192.168.0.3]> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEKMCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEKMCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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At 5:42 PM -0500 3/4/02, 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? My system looks like this when it's running: 06:00pm 529 ~>ps aux | grep postfix root 61631 0.0 0.3 1008 744 ?? Is 4:01PM 0:00.35 /usr/local/libexec/postfix/master postfix 37922 0.0 0.3 1000 708 ?? I 5:55PM 0:00.02 pickup -l -t fifo -u postfix 37923 0.0 0.3 1032 740 ?? I 5:55PM 0:00.14 qmgr -l -t fifo -u You'll have to first edit the main.cf file at /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf then as root do: postfix start keep an eye on /var/log/maillog to see what's happening. after you get it running you may want to add a startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ Mine is just this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/postfix start A few weeks back I set up postfix, fetchmail, procmail, qpopper and spamassassin on a stand-alone box connected to the net via a cable modem (no FQDN). I wrote up some notes for myself at http://www.jimarnold.org/geekinfo/template.php?id=45 that may be helpful to you. Cheers, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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