PRAYER-SESSION(8) System Manager's Manual PRAYER-SESSION(8)NAMEprayer-session — Prayer user session backend daemon
SYNOPSISprayer-session [--config-file file] [[--config-option name=value] ...]
[--foreground]
DESCRIPTIONprayer-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 pos‐
sibly 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 cor‐
rect 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 configura‐
tion 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 ALSOprayer(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>.
The Prayer Webmail Interface 17 August 2008 The Prayer Webmail Interface
