Re: spawn(8) question

Ralf Hildebrandt:
> The man page says:
>
> The spawn(8) daemon provides the Postfix equivalent of inetd. It lis-
> tens on a port as specified in the Postfix master.cf file and spawns an
> external command whenever a connection is established. The connection
> can be made over local IPC (such as UNIX-domain sockets) or over non-
> local IPC (such as TCP sockets). The command's standard input, output
> and error streams are connected directly to the communication endpoint.
>
> But where is the behaviour documented, that these communication endpoints
> end up in $queue_directory/private/<servicename> ?

These sockets are a Postfix internal interface. To connect to
non-Postfix software, use one of the 30+ Postfix daemon processes.

Wietse