Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:19:02 +0000 From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can qpopper run as a daemon? Message-ID: <37CAE736.82CF835C@owp.csus.edu> References: <19990830195949.KRWM2478302.mta2-rme@wocker>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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