ms won't return from ssh

[Randy Fishel]

  Well, I'll be...  You are right.  All these years of asserting -bd with
-q (yet many startup scripts still do it).

rf

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> The "-bd" tells sendmail you want it to provide the SMTP service on port
> 25. It doesn't actually have anything to do with it becoming a daemon. A
> sendmail started with just "sendmail -q15m" will daemonise itself.
>
> At 00:25 27/09/2002, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Randy Fishel wrote:
> >
> > >   Your answer is in what the "-bd" option does in sendmail (or mostly,
> > > what will happen if it is missing).
> >