Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:09:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey <grog> To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Where is Sendmail PID? Message-ID: <199704100509.WAA15586@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970409212905.4997m-100000@localhost> from "Doug White" at Apr 9, 97 09:29:53 pm
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Doug White writes: > > On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Patrick S. Gardella wrote: > > > This may sound like a very silly question, but we can't find the sendmail > > pid! It's not in /var/run and the find command cant find it. > > > > Is this a new feature of 2.1.7? Sendmail is definitely working! > > I see it in /var/run/sendmail.pid... > > gdi,ttyp2,/var/run,39>cat sendmail.pid > 142 > /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m > gdi,ttyp2,/var/run,40>ps ax | grep sendmail > 142 ?? Is 0:00.28 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 > (sendmail) > > (running 2.2.1) Maybe this is a misunderstanding. sendmail only writes a pid file when it's running as a daemon (option -bd). Run it any other way and it works, but it deosn't create a pid file. Greg
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