Le 20/11/2012 21:44, Rosenbaum, Larry M. a écrit : > We have some scripts that run to check that important processes like Postfix > are running. The Postfix check does a 'ps ax' and looks for > '/postfix/master', 'qmgr', 'pickup', and 'tlsmgr'. Should we be checking for > all 4 of these or are there normal circumstances where some of these may be > missing? >
if the goal is to monitor the mail system, then setup a "monitoring address", send mail to and have a process to read that mail (pop or whatever).