proposition regarding mail/p5-Mail-SpanAssassin

Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak at heron.pl
Fri Feb 25 08:15:48 PST 2005


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:21:00 +0100, Mathieu Arnold <mat at mat.cc> 
wrote:

> +-Le 25/02/2005 00:15 +0100, Piotr Smyrak a dit :
> | Dear Maintainers,
> | 
> | I would like to ask for your opinion on the attached patch to
> | mail/p5-Spam-Assassin. It adds a knob WITH_SOCKET that enables
> | starting SA with Unix socket instead of IP port. 
> | 
> | This is might be helpful - besides myself - for people that want
> to | spare some megas of RAM, since socket SA keeps just two pids
> running | contrary to port SA that starts by default in summary 7
> processes. 
> 
> I don't see the point of this, what prevents you from putting :
> 
> spamd_flags="-c -d -r ${spamd_pidfile} --socketpath=/socket/path"
> 
> in your /etc/rc.conf ?

Wow! I had no idea, I could override the rc script values this way.
FreeBSD is a wonderful thing, but some of its beaties are not enogh
exposed. :-)

Thanks,
-- 
 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl




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