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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



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