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>.