From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 16:27:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com (smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com [204.210.192.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1112537B402 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:27:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com; id TAA13130; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:23:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown(166.108.139.2) by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com via smap (V4.2) id xma013121; Mon, 4 Mar 02 19:22:41 -0500 Received: from spike ([206.128.102.241]) by bea-mx.thebeaconjournal.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GSH28L00.931; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:21:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (unknown [192.168.0.3]) by spike (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822DC1F6D; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:21:04 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jim@192.168.0.7 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:21:00 -0500 To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "FBSDQ" From: "James A. Arnold" Subject: Re: How to tell postfix is running? 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 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