On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:44:50AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I was wondering if their were any security benefits/pitfalls exiting > between running exim through inetd or running it as a standalone daemon.
I believe the only difference is that with daemon mode you're trading memory for startup overhead, while with inetd mode your making the opposite tradeoff. I.e. if you're in daemon mode, exim doesn't need to be started each time an smtp connection comes in (OK, it does, but it doesn't need to go through its whole initialization process). But the cost of this is that it remains in memory even when it's not delivering mail. I think that if a lot of mail passes through your site, and you're concerned about perfomance, then go with daemon mode. Otherwise, just run it from inetd. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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