Daemon Mode

Daemon Mode

To process incoming mail over sockets, a daemon must be running. The -bd flag causes sendmail to run in daemon mode. The -bd and -q flags can be combined in one call, as in the following example:

/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m

This command causes sendmail to run in daemon mode and to fork a subdaemon for queue processing every half hour.

The script for starting sendmail that is provided with IRIX includes the following command line:

/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m