From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 1:43:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6044A15866 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.212]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990831084546.VKKC3442178.mta1-rme@wocker>; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:45:46 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Joseph Scott Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:41:07 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: can qpopper run as a daemon? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <37CAE736.82CF835C@owp.csus.edu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990831084546.VKKC3442178.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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