[geeks] stupid linux question

Caleb Shay caleb at webninja.com
Fri Aug 9 13:55:42 CDT 2002


I'm not sure what ps flag will give it to you, but sendmail can usually 
be found in /usr/sbin or /usr/lib, depending on your linux 
distribution/unix flavor.
which sendmail or whereis sendmail can also be very helpful.

Caleb

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>When I type ps aux i get this:
>.
>.
>.
>root     11930  0.0  0.5 73756 3852 ?        S    Aug07   0:02 /usr/sbin/apache
>root     21242  0.0  0.3  4992 2208 ?        S    Aug08   0:05 sendmail: MTA: accepting connections
>.
>.
>
>Note, while the other processes, like apache list their exectable name
>and path, sendmail doesn't.  I need to find where sendmail is.  It isn't
>in my path.  What flag would I use on ps to make it reveal this info?



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