A copy of sendmail is started each time you send an outgoing email. At
any moment, there might be several sendmail daemons running, or none at all.
-Wayne
Stephen Ames wrote:
> Service sendmail status responds with "sendmail is stopped" and ps responds
> with:
>
> "5016 pts/0 S 0:00 grep sendmail"
>
> So it looks like it is not running. Does anybody have any idea then how the
> log can be getting sendmail entries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:26 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Sendmail SNAFU / Postfix fixed
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Stephen Ames wrote:
>
>
>>I checked /etc/init.d/sendmail status and it reports being down as
>>expected. So if it is down, how can it show up in today's log? Can
>>multiple instances of sendmail be running on a system? How can I
>>verify this?
>
>
> service sendmail status
>
> or
>
> ps x | grep '[s]endmail'
>
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