NAME¶
prayer —
standalone IMAP-based webmail
server
SYNOPSIS¶
| prayer |
[--config-file
file]
[[--config-option
name=value]
...]
[--foreground |
--disable-prefork]
[--disable-session |
-- session-options
...] |
DESCRIPTION¶
prayer is the normal frontend daemon in the Prayer Webmail
system. It is a simple HTTP server and proxy that serves icons and other
static files, but firstly and foremostly forwards requests to the correct
backend daemons based on session IDs passed either in cookies or as part of
the URL.
The master daemon normally preforks a number of child processes that each will
serve a configurable number of requests. The total number of child processes
is limited to prevent denial of service attacks.
prayer accepts the following command-line options:
- --config-file
file
- Reads configuration from file instead
of the default.
- --config-option
name=value
- Sets (overrides) the configuration option
name to
value. Any number of options can be specified in
this manner.
- --foreground
- Debug mode. Run a single process in the foreground.
- --disable-prefork
- Disable preforking. The master daemon will listen for
connections on the configured ports and spawn child processes one at a
time.
- --disable-session
- Do not start the session server,
prayer-session(8).
- --
- End of prayer options; remaining options
will be passed to prayer-session(8).
ENVIRONMENT¶
PRAYER_CONFIG_FILE- Can be set to specify the configuration file to use.
PRAYER_HOSTNAME- Local hostname. Overrides the hostname
setting in the configuration file as well as on the command line.
FILES¶
- /usr/local/prayer/etc/prayer.cf
- Default configuration file.
- /usr/local/prayer/icons/
- Location of the standard icons used by the interface.
- /usr/local/prayer/static/
- Directory containing other static files; currently only CSS
files.
- /var/spool/prayer/sockets/
- Pre-configured location of sockets for frontend to backend
communication.
SEE ALSO¶
prayer-session(8),
prayer.cf(5)
AUTHORS¶
This manual page was put together by
Magnus Holmgren
<holmgren@debian.org> using documentation
written by David Carter
<dpc22@cam.ac.uk>.
