Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:41:07 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can qpopper run as a daemon? Message-ID: <19990831084546.VKKC3442178.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <37CAE736.82CF835C@owp.csus.edu>
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Hmmm. The main reason I wanted to try running a POP server as a daemon was to increase performance. That may sound strange on a 486 box, but I figured that method might be faster then from inetd. Any comments? On 30 Aug 99, at 20:19, Joseph Scott wrote: > > As far as I know you can only run it out of inetd. I would imagine > there might be a couple of reasons, such as in order to change pid it > forks off another process anyway. So even if you had 10 people checking > mail at once you'd still have 10 qpopper's running around, each with the id > of user. That way only the user checking the mail has access to his/her > mail. > > > Dan Langille wrote: > > > > I installed qpopper about a year ago and it's running via > > /etc/inetd.conf. > > Can it also be configured to run as a standalone daemon? Nothing in the > > man pages so I suspect not. > > -- > > Joseph Scott > joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu > Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsdiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm unix @ home - http://www.unixathome.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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