On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:51:22PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > 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. Well, it remains in memory if you don't have any swap. Otherwise, it swaps out. However, I would think that inetd mode is fine for most non-server applications. Of course, I no longer run exim so I could be way off ;) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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