>> 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?
Sounds like it to me ...
> A "daemon" (in opposite to a "queue runner") tries to bind itself to port 25.
I do not believe that to be the normal interpretation -- a daemon is a long
running process which does work as it is available.
A queue runner with a specified time is a daemon:
-q <time>
This version of the -q option (which again can be run only by an
admin user) causes Exim to run as a daemon, starting a queue-running
process at intervals specified by the given time value (whose format
is described in section 7.6).
> So you do not want to run two daemons.
That is not as I understand it.
>> 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...
Yup -- sounds to me to be on your part ...
> A daemon takes mail on port 25.
"A daemon CAN take mail on port 25"
> A daemon also runs the queue periodically.
"A daemon CAN also run the queue periodically."
> Another Exim may of course be started to run the queue,
That is what he is suggesting ...
> but you can *not* run the second one with -bd
Indeed -- if the first is bound to port 25
> or -q2m
That is not my understanding. Whence do you get that idea ?
... If a daemon is run with only
one of -bd and -q<time>, then that option is added on to the end of
the file name, allowing sites that run two separate daemons to
distinguish them.
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