[mlmmj] How to start mlmmj as a service on Ubuntu 16.04

[mlmmj] How to start mlmmj as a service on Ubuntu 16.04

[Dave Nelson]

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Hello,
I have installed mlmmj, but it is not started as a service on Ubuntu 
16.04 (systemd).
Please would anyone have instructions/advice about how to start mlmmj at 
boot time on Ubuntu 16.04?
With many thanks in advance for any help,
Dave

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Re: [mlmmj] How to start mlmmj as a service on Ubuntu 16.04

[Ori Bernstein]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 03:59:22 +0200, Dave Nelson <dave@dalek.zone> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have installed mlmmj, but it is not started as a service on Ubuntu 
> 16.04 (systemd).
> Please would anyone have instructions/advice about how to start mlmmj at 
> boot time on Ubuntu 16.04?
> With many thanks in advance for any help,
> Dave

mlmmj is not a service. It is run by your mail server. Configure a popular
mail server (eg, postfix), and read then follow the directions here:

	http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-postfix/

If you prefer a different mail server, then follow (or adapt) the directions
for those.

-- 
    Ori Bernstein

Re: [mlmmj] How to start mlmmj as a service on Ubuntu 16.04

[Martin Brampton]

On 05/11/2019 02:18, Ori Bernstein wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 03:59:22 +0200, Dave Nelson <dave@dalek.zone> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I have installed mlmmj, but it is not started as a service on Ubuntu
>> 16.04 (systemd).
>> Please would anyone have instructions/advice about how to start mlmmj at
>> boot time on Ubuntu 16.04?
>> With many thanks in advance for any help,
>> Dave
> 
> mlmmj is not a service. It is run by your mail server. Configure a popular
> mail server (eg, postfix), and read then follow the directions here:
> 
> 	http://mlmmj.org/docs/readme-postfix/
> 
> If you prefer a different mail server, then follow (or adapt) the directions
> for those.

Quite correct, but it does prompt a related question. There is mention 
in the documentation of running mlmmj-maintd as a service, but how would 
this be done? Is it advantageous, relative to running maintd with cron?

Re: [mlmmj] How to start mlmmj as a service on Ubuntu 16.04

[Mads Martin Jørgensen]

> On 5 Nov 2019, at 10.29, Martin Brampton <martin@black-sheep-research.com> wrote:
> 
> Quite correct, but it does prompt a related question. There is mention in the documentation of running mlmmj-maintd as a service, but how would this be done? Is it advantageous, relative to running maintd with cron?

It’s hard to think of good ideas to not just use cron, if it’s there. Why run more daemons than necessary on the server? It’s more a historical reason that it’s not default to fork to the background, and I think I wanted to make it the default at some point, but never got around to it.

-- 
Mads Martin Jørgensen
“Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?” - A. P. J

Re: [mlmmj] How to start mlmmj as a service on Ubuntu 16.04

[Piotr Auksztulewicz]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 09:29:15AM +0000, Martin Brampton wrote:
> 
> Quite correct, but it does prompt a related question. There is mention in
> the documentation of running mlmmj-maintd as a service, but how would this
> be done? Is it advantageous, relative to running maintd with cron?

I think it is better to run fewer, well tested deamons than have every
single piece of software manage itself. So I'd go for cron for periodic
things like maintenance - or systemd timer if I am being facetious :-)

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Piotr "Malgond" Auksztulewicz                     firstname@lastname.net