<html> <head> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> </head> <body> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> <a href="#CONFIGURATION">CONFIGURATION</a><br> <a href="#NOTES">NOTES</a><br> <a href="#FILES">FILES</a><br> <a href="#/etc/cyrus.conf, /etc/imapd.conf, /var/run/cyrus-master.pid">/etc/cyrus.conf, /etc/imapd.conf, /var/run/cyrus-master.pid</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <!-- Creator : groff version 1.15 --> <!-- CreationDate: Mon Feb 3 16:31:15 2003 --> <!-- Total number of pages: 1 --> <!-- Page: 1 --> <!-- left margin: 100 --> <!-- right margin: 750 --> <a name="NAME"></a><h2>NAME</h2><p><font size=3>master - master Cyrus process</p> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2>SYNOPSIS</h2><p><font size=3><B>master</B> <font size=3>[ <font size=3><B>-l</B> <font size=3><I>listen queue</I> <font size=3>] [ <font size=3><B>-p</B> <font size=3><I>pidfile</I> <font size=3>] <font size=3><B>-d</B> <font size=3>[ <font size=3><B>-D</B> <font size=3>]</p> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><font size=3><I>Master</I> <font size=3>is the process that controls all of the Cyrus processes. This process is responsible for creating all imapd, pop3d, lmtpd and sieved child processes. This process also initializes the Berkeley DB code and performs sched- uled cleanup/maintenance.</p> <p><font size=3>If this process dies, then no new sessions will be started.</p> <p><font size=3>It kills itself and all child processes when it receives a SIGTERM.</p> <a name="OPTIONS"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><p><font size=3><B>-l</B> <font size=3><I>listen queue backlog<br> <span style=" text-indent: 1.3000in;"></span></I>Increase the listen queue backlog. By default, the listen queue is set to 32. On systems<br> <span style=" text-indent: 1.3000in;"></span>with a high connection rate, it may be desirable to increase this value. refer to <font size=3><B>listen(2)</B> <font size=3>for<br> <span style=" text-indent: 1.3000in;"></span>details.</p> <p><font size=3><B>-p</B> <font size=3><I>pidfile</I> <font size=3>Use <font size=3><I>pidfile</I> <font size=3>as the pidfile. If not specified, defaults to /var/run/cyrus-master.pid</p> <table width="100%" rules="none" frame="none" cols="4"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td valign="top" align="left" width="2.9231%"> <p><font size=3><B>-d</p> </B><p><font size=3><B>-D</p> </B></td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="17.0769%"> </td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="73.3846%"> <p><font size=3>Start in daemon mode (run in background and disconnect from controlling terminal).</p> <p><font size=3>Don't close stdin/stdout/stderr. Primiarly useful for debugging.</p> </td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="6.6154%"> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <a name="CONFIGURATION"></a><h2>CONFIGURATION</h2><p><font size=3>Upon execution, <font size=3><I>master</I> <font size=3>reads its configuration information out of the <font size=3><I>cyrus.conf</I><font size=3>(5) file.</p> <p><font size=3><I>Master</I> <font size=3>rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal, SIGHUP. Services and events may be added, deleted or modified when the configuration file is reread. Any active services removed from the configura- tion file will be allowed to run until completion.</p> <a name="NOTES"></a><h2>NOTES</h2><p><font size=3>The environment variable <font size=3><B>CYRUS_VERBOSE</B> <font size=3>can be set to log additional debugging information. Setting the value to 1 results in base level logging. Setting it higher results in more log messages being generated.</p> <a name="FILES"></a><h2>FILES</h2><a name="/etc/cyrus.conf, /etc/imapd.conf, /var/run/cyrus-master.pid"></a><h2>/etc/cyrus.conf, /etc/imapd.conf, /var/run/cyrus-master.pid</h2><a name="SEE ALSO"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><font size=3><B>cyrus.conf(5)</B><font size=3>, <font size=3><B>imapd.conf(5)</B><font size=3>, <font size=3><B>imapd(8)</B><font size=3>, <font size=3><B>pop3d(8)</B><font size=3>, <font size=3><B>lmtpd(8)</B><font size=3>, <font size=3><B>timsieved(8)</B><font size=3>, <font size=3><B>idled(8)</B><br> </p> </body> </html>
