cyrus daemons: -U option

[kael]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 
>>why is it needed to shut down a process after it has handled a certain
>>amount of connections? I'm talking about the -U option to imapd, pop3d,
>>lmtpd, nntpd, etc.
> 
> It is not _needed_.  But it is a defense against lurking bugs that leak
> memory, and againt some scenarios of memory corruption and attacks.
> 
> It is just a safety net.  If it is causing too much of a performance
> drawback for you, don't use it.

I'm also interested with this question; specially, I don't clearly 
understand what the -U and -T options infer.

My goal is to run nntpd 24/7 without need to do anything else except 
launching it once; but currently, nntpd starts and then stops after 
15-20 minutes.

cyrus-master seems to be involved with this problem but I can't find how.

In /etc/cyrus.conf, I added in the SERVICES section:

nntp          cmd="nntpd -U 500 -T 600 -f " listen="nntp" prefork=5

then started cyrus like this:

$ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-master

... instead of:

$ service cyrus-imapd start

... but unsuccessfully.

Because the feed regularly stops to be delivered, I'm wondering if an 
EVENT should be created in /etc/cyrus.conf for nntpd.

I hope you could enlighten.

Thank you very much.

-- 
kael
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