running in foreground?

[Mariano Absatz]

Hi Csillag,

the original MailScanner does not support running in foreground, other than 
for debugging purposes.

I modified it so you can add an option to MailScanner.conf like:
Run In Foreground = yes

As a value added, it spits some processing info (like, when child processes 
are spawned) to STDOUT that you can easily capture with multilog.

See my original message at http://tinyurl.com/2n5gd

In http://tinyurl.com/2d4go I added a bit of info about using daemontools... 
but if you're asking for this, you probably already know that.

Finally, in http://tinyurl.com/2qalx I send a bunch of patches to Julian to 
see if he'd add some of them to the next release... the one I put as most 
significative for other users (that is, other than me) is just this one.

FWIW, I'm running with this patches in two different sites, one of them is a 
large IPS with 12 servers, each with 2 independent instances of MailScanner, 
everything started by daemontools.

Julian,

I swear I don't know this guy and didn't send him :-D

El 10 Jun 2004 a las 0:55, Csillag Tam s escribió:

> Hi Julian,
> 
> I want to run mailscanner under a supervisor daemon like:
> DJB's: daemontools http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
> G. Pape's runit: http://smarden.org/runit/
> 
> For this mailscanner have to run in foreground (no detach, no daemon mode),
> because this way the supervise daemon can reliablely check if it is
> running fine.
> 
> Is there any way to tell mailscanner to run in foreground?
> I want something similar to Debug mode, but I do not want it to exit.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --
> cstamas

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