bionic (8) prayer-session.8.gz

Provided by: prayer_1.3.5-dfsg1-4build1_amd64 bug

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

     prayer(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>.