On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:38:25 -0400 Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote:
> You'll have to forgive the stupid question since I'm not a regular > user of MIMEDefang, but what's the purpose of the file lock? Is it to > prevent multiple daemons from running at the same time when they're > not managed by an init system? Yep. In the days of systemd and the like, this is probably not necessary, but not everyone runs systemd. If people do use systemd or whatever, then they'd start mimedefang and mimedefang-multiplexor without the options that create the pidfiles and let systemd manage the processes. Regards, Dianne. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
