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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Wildman writes: >On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 19:23, Ron Culler wrote: >> Just shooting this out to see what responses I get. I was interested in >> looking at what it would take to daemonize Q-S. Perl having to load >> everytime Q-S starts adds a lot to the server. As traffic and loads >> increase I can see that growing even more. I have looked at several >> things including the perl compiler and running perl as a daemon. >> Unfortunaly I haven't found a good solution. Has any one given this any >> thought? Maybe a SPAMC SPAMD model may be more suitable? > >You hit the nail on the head! I have been looking at implementing >something similar to spamc/spamd as well. At 7 messages a second my >servers take a lot of strain with the current configuration of Q-S. I am >also looking into doing LDAP lookups to get user preferences before Q-S >does its thing. Unfortunately, I think that anything like this will create security holes in qmail. I think that you'd probably get almost equal performance gains with many fewer security holes if you simply rewrote q-s in C or C++. Part of qmail's security is that each program in it does one task, and the only persistent programs are tcpserver and qmail-send, both of which never directly accept user input. Also, getting a daemonized version to work effectively with the qmail system would probably also be a challenge. I'd look at rewriting q-s in C before trying to daemonize it. - -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9b6VWoayJfLoDSdIRAnB7AJoCMzU8mPVL6pL189Kkq4b548wquQCfdHzt yrMGJMKHuhgvylFUJrftBRQ= =oUjw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
