PRAYER-SESSION(8)
NAME
prayer-session -- Prayer user session backend daemon
SYNOPSIS
prayer-session [--config-file file] [[--config-option name=value] ...] [--foreground]
DESCRIPTION
prayer-session is the backend process in the Prayer Webmail system. A fresh prayer-session backend is forked off whenever a user logs in.
This process contains all of the permanent state associated with that
login session including one or more connections to a IMAP server and possibly connections to accountd servers. prayer-session communicates with
the user using HTML over HTTP connections via the prayer(8) proxy. Each
login has a session ID that the front end processes use to find the correct backend.
Backend server processes move into a dormant state after a certain period
of inactivity, shutting down IMAP and accountd connections which can be
easily resuscitated when the session wakes up. After a long period of
inactivity, typically several hours the session process shuts down.
prayer-session accepts the following command-line options:
- --config-file file
- Reads configuration from file instead of the default
/etc/prayer/prayer.cf. - --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.
ENVIRONMENT
- PRAYER_CONFIG_FILE
- Can be set to specify the configuration file to use. The
--config-file option takes precedence over this variable. - 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/templates/
- Location of standard templates. The templates are compiled into
prayer-session for performance reasons, so the template files are actually not used, but they are available for customization.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
- This manual page was put together by Magnus Holmgren
<holmgren@debian.org> using documentation written by
David Carter <dpc22@cam.ac.uk>.