I'm fairly new to qmail. I was a sendmail fan forever till I got bored and
decided to switch to qmail. So far I love it. I started readin the
lifewithmail homepage and decided to try it out. I've got everything
installed and running but 1 thing puzzles me, I know it's probably a goofy
question and please no harsh comments ;) but why so many process running
as root? Here's my process list. I understand all of it except the first 5
process all running as root. I know this is probably some easy thing but
I'm the paranoid type and it makes me curious. Thanks for any info
root 954 1.0 0.6 1244 380 ? S 16:59 0:00 svscan
/service
root 955 0.0 0.5 1204 348 ? S 16:59 0:00 supervise
qmail-send
root 956 0.0 0.5 1204 348 ? S 16:59 0:00 supervise log
root 957 0.0 0.5 1204 348 ? S 16:59 0:00 supervise
qmail-smtpd
root 958 0.5 0.5 1204 348 ? S 16:59 0:00 supervise log
qmaill 959 0.5 0.5 1216 348 ? S 16:59 0:00
/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
qmails 960 1.5 0.6 1264 424 ? S 16:59 0:00 qmail-send
qmaill 962 0.5 0.5 1216 348 ? S 16:59 0:00
/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
root 963 0.5 0.5 1216 360 ? S 16:59 0:00 qmail-lspawn
./Maildir/
qmailr 964 0.0 0.5 1216 360 ? S 16:59 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 965 0.0 0.6 1212 376 ? S 16:59 0:00 qmail-clean
qmaild 966 1.0 1.1 1768 712 ? S 16:59 0:00
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.
root 970 0.0 1.3 2568 840 pts/0 R 16:59 0:00 ps aux
