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Wayne Cuddy wrote:
 
> Even though I am developing on FBSD is there a "more portable" way to do this?

setproctitle(3) works at least for FreeBSD and NetBSD. Poke around the 
sources of sendmail(8) for a more ... ported way. I'm sure you'll find 
something.

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