On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Josh Marquis wrote:
I would like to run imapd as a standalone service rather than through inetd but
couldn't find any information on how to do this.
You can't.
Nor does it make any sense to change do so. Each imapd session has to run
in its own process, since it setuids itself to the user that logs in via
IMAP. If imapd ran as a standalone server, it would actually consume an
additional process than the current scheme of running imapd under inetd.
Standalone daemons only make sense if the daemon needs to be continously
running doing something other than being a server (such as sendmail, which
must also maintain mail queues and deliver mail), or if the task of the
daemon is ameniable to being threaded.
-- Mark --
http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
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Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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