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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:01:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Herb Martin <HerbM AT learnquick DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:

> Is anyone successfully running the full Mail::SPF perl module, SPECIFICALLY
> the spfd (daemon)?
>
> I can run it ONLY as a socket, and only if I leave it in the foreground.
> (Otherwise Exim doesn't seem to be able to query it.)
> [snip]
> Exim queries it successfully if it is left in the foreground AND run as a
> Unix Socket:
>
> 	spfd -path=/var/run/spfd
>
> Trying to naively put it in the background with:
>
> 	spfd -path=/var/run/spfd &
>
> ...seems to leave it non-responsive.

I know nothing about spfd, but some programs work better in the background
if you kill their input/output (i.e., try

spfd -path=/var/run/spfd </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

).  If this works, I suspect the "non-responsive" spfd process you had
earlier was actually either in the "Output pending" or the "Waiting for
input" state.
HTH,
	Igor
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