Re: [Exim] PID file

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Author: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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To: j.linn
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] PID file
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, j.linn wrote:

> Hope to have "read the manual first" etc but every time I set up the PID
> file I get
>
> exim.pid-bd

        ...        ...        ...

> Where is the "-bd" coming from?


See -bd in the spec file:
    If a daemon is run with only one of -bd or -q<time>,
    that option is added on to the end of the file name,
    allowing sites that run two separate daemons to
    distinguish them.


-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@???    http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna