"Timothy L. Mayo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, [iso-8859-1] "Günthner, Ralf" wrote:
>
>> qmaild 701 0.0 1.2 832 280 p0 S 15:49 0:00 tcpserver -v
>> -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u33334 -g333 0 25 qmail-smtpd
>> qmaild 796 0.0 1.2 832 296 p0 S 15:52 0:00 tcpserver -v
>> -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u33334 -g333 0 25 qmail-smtpd
>
>That is expected behavior. tcpserver spawns another instance of itself to
>handle the communication for a specific connection request. (up to the
>maximum specified by the -c option - default is 40).
But tcpserver doesn't handle the communication, qmail-smtpd does. So
he should be seeing multiple qmail-smtpds, as needed.
On my systems, I always have exactly one "tcpserver qmail-smtpd"
process, and as many "qmail-smtpd" processes as there are active SMTP
connections.
-Dave
