On Fri, 15 January 1999 21:00:55 +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
> Will I break something seriously if I have two exim daemons on the
> same machine? One (exim -bd) would run continuously and another (exim
> -q2m) would only run while the dial-up connection is up.
Two daemons? A "daemon" (in opposite to a "queue runner") tries
to bind itself to port 25. So you do not want to run two daemons.
> I understand that in most situations exim runs as a combined daemon
> (exim -bd -q2m) - but will it run as two separate daemons as well?
I am afraid we have a slight misunderstanding here...
A daemon takes mail on port 25. A daemon also runs the queue
periodically. Another Exim may of course be started to run the
queue, but you can *not* run the second one with -bd or -q2m but
perhaps with something -qf (as someone else already pointed out).
An at job comes to my mind. You could start atd when dialing in
and kill it when you hang up. I hate atd and I do not run it
always so that would be ok for me. Depends on whether you need at
for any other things.
Alexander
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