On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Harisha K.R. wrote:
> Afte sometime it would be like this:
>
> # ps -ef|grep exim
> mailnull 2492 1 0 14:08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
> mailnull 2496 2492 0 14:08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
> mailnull 2535 2492 1 14:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
> root 2538 2103 1 14:15 pts/2 00:00:00 grep exim
Those are not necessarily all daemon processes. Use the "exiwhat"
utility to find out what they are doing. I would expect that 2492 is the
daemon and 2496 and 2535 are forked subprocesses of the daemon that are
receiving incoming messages. (Notice that the daemon is their parent.)
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