* Victor Duchovni <postfix-users@postfix.org>: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 06:07:46PM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > > > I have two instances of Postfix (2.7.1) running on a server, but I can't > > tell > > which is which: > > > > % ps axf > > ... > > 31383 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master > > 31627 ? S 0:00 \_ pickup -l -t fifo -u -c > > 31628 ? S 0:00 \_ qmgr -l -t fifo -u > > 31505 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master > > 31638 ? S 0:00 \_ pickup -l -t fifo -u -c > > 31639 ? S 0:00 \_ qmgr -l -t fifo -u > > If you include the parent process id in the "ps" output, and run "postfix > status", you'll see which master(8) process is which instance, and thus > which instance owns which sub-process. Sadly "postfix status" never sends > anything to pipes, it just syslogs when the output is not a terminal... > > So to find which master is which instance you need to look in the master.pid > files or in /proc, ... If you do look in /proc, each child process has > MAIL_CONFIG in its environment...
I see, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I was looking for something simplier. p@rick -- All technical questions asked privately will be automatically answered on the list and archived for public access unless privacy is explicitely required and justified. saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH): <http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>
