unknown process

[david]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:51, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 28.01.2005, 14:40 +0000 schrieb david:
> > I don't recall ever seeing it before. I can't find a manual entry for
> > pickup or anything in apropos either.
> thats strange, man pickup shows me the manpage here....
> an excerpt:
> 
> pickup - Postfix local mail pickup
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        pickup [generic Postfix daemon options]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        The  pickup  daemon waits for hints that new mail has been
> dropped into
>        the maildrop directory, and feeds it into the cleanup(8) daemon.
> Ill‐
>        formatted  files  are  deleted  without notifying the originator.
> This
>        program expects to be run from the master(8) process manager.
> 
> STANDARDS
>        None. The pickup daemon does not interact with the outside world.
> 
> 
> the last sentence should answer your question....
> 
This machine, of all the three has portmap open due to it being an nfs
server. But no email has been configured on it.

Many thanks.