Thanks for that...
One other thing now. I want to use multilog to log on machines not running
supervise, because we just want simple set up and I want to be able to parse
the log files through either qmailanalog or qmail-mrtg (any recommendations
here?). Is this easy to do?
Thanks,
BR
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:04 PM
Subject: RE: Diff between Supervise & Tcpserver?
>
>> Hi guys. This is probly a simple question but I can't
>> find an obvious answer anywhere.As far as I can tell,
>> there are three ways to run Qmail: Inetd (yuck), tcpserver
>> (regular), and supervisor (??).
>
> Inetd and tcpserver are programs designed to accept traffic on a
>port and start a given program in response to that traffic.
>
> supervise is designed to start a program, restart it if it fails
>unexpectedly, and provide an easy way to pass signals to the program.
>
> So, you would use supervise to start tcpserver which starts
>qmail-smtpd, and if tcpserver died supervise would restart it for you.
>
> Given the reliability of qmail and related tools, I've always
>wondered why supervise came about ;>. You can use it or not, as you
prefer.
>
>--
> gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
