Re: [exim] [NEWBIE] Confused

Tim Jackson wrote:


> No, I think I may have confused things. The "-bd" option is used to start
> Exim as a daemon. If you run it as a daemon, you can make the queue runs
> happen automatically by adding the -q option. So, for example, if you want
> to run Exim as a daemon and do queue runs every 10 minutes, you would
> start it with this:
>
> exim -bd -q10m


> Now, if you run Exim with the "-q" option on its own (as the cron script
> you showed did), that just starts a queue runner.

Won't -bd open a socket? I'm assuming the point of the cronjob was
to avoid that.


exim -q10m

That should still start a daemon, which just spawns queue runners...