Re: performance enhancements on qpopper

[Randall Gellens]

Title: Re: performance enhancements on qpopper

At 1:44 PM -0700 9/3/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

ok, want to try some configuration options (as in the eudora admin guide, p 11) but don't quite understand what they mean between the different categories:

 

    "Type this option..."  --- where?  at startup? after the inetd?  where?

The page 11 (of the March 2001 Guide) options say:

Configure Options
The following options (flags) can be passed to ./configure to enable compile-time
changes:

To use any of these options, add the option as shown when running ./configure.  If you don't want any options, the ./configure command is simply './configure'.  If you want, say, to enable debug tracing, and nothing else, your ./configure command is './configure --enable-debugging'.

Note that almost all ./configure options are also available as configure file options, which is in general a much easier way to use them, since you don't have to recompile.  Most options have a default state which can be overridden using ./configure options to create the run-time default, which can be overridden by a global configure file to create a run-time default, which can be overridden by a user-specific configure file to adjust the option per-user.  Some options can not be set in a user-specific configure file, and some options can only be set in ./configure (such as those that specify linking with additional libraries).

 

    "configuration file option" -- ok, what configuration file?  where is it?

See the section on configuration files.  To find this quickly, see the table of contents:

Installing and Setting Up Qpopper       9
What you need to do                                    9
Installing Qpopper                                    9
Make Commands                                  10
Uninstalling Qpopper                          10
Configuring Qpopper                          10
Configure Options                                     11
Run-Time Command Line Options                        21
Run-Time Options from a Configuration File   27

So, to learn about configuration files, try page 27 (in the March 2001 Guide).  This section could be a little more clear by stating that you have to specifu the configuration file using the '-f' command-line flag.

 checking my inetd.conf settings, i see that the log file is activated...but where is the log file?  how does qpopper log?

Qpopper logs to the facility you specified, or to a default one (LOCAL0 or MAIL, depending on your OS).