> Hi guys. This is probly a simple question but I can't
> find an obvious answer anywhere.As far as I can tell,
> there are three ways to run Qmail: Inetd (yuck), tcpserver
> (regular), and supervisor (??).
Inetd and tcpserver are programs designed to accept traffic on a
port and start a given program in response to that traffic.
supervise is designed to start a program, restart it if it fails
unexpectedly, and provide an easy way to pass signals to the program.
So, you would use supervise to start tcpserver which starts
qmail-smtpd, and if tcpserver died supervise would restart it for you.
Given the reliability of qmail and related tools, I've always
wondered why supervise came about ;>. You can use it or not, as you prefer.
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