Register a daemon as service
 

please guide me on registering a daemon as service (in general).

Specifically, I tried installing postfix 2.4.1 on my computer. Now can any1 help on how to make it a service. Now it is like i m starting the service using the command "postfix start" and so cant check the status of the program and all. Please guide me on how to make it a service.

Thanks

What distribution are you running? You probably need to create an init script, though most distribution packages already do that. Are you sure there isn't one already?

I am running RHEL 4. I uninstalled the default postfix and re-installed it using the tar.zip file 4m postfix.org

Then the init scripts probably go in /etc/rc.d/rc.init or something similar. You'll need to craft a new one by hand.

Out of curiousity, why did you install the postfix.org version instead of the RHEL version?

i just wanted to try the latest version of postfix. Let me ask u onething . . . .

How is it that i can block spam mails using the new postfix

As far as I know, you'll need to install some sort of spam filtering software, like spam assassin.

david thanks a lot for ur response

Can u pls help me in developing an init script to make postfix a service