gene heskett posted on Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:06:19 -0500 as excerpted:
>> As I've mentioned previously, claws-mail uses a Unix socket for
>> instance syncing.
>
> But where is the sockets # defined?
I don't quite get the thrust of that question, so really haven't a clue
if the below answers it or not. First instinct is to interpret that as
"where [in the sources] is the socket # defined", but that doesn't make a
whole lot of sense in context. How/where is it defined in the config?
Maybe, but...
It's a Unix socket, so it's defined by a path and socketfile name, not an
IP and port number, so socket number doesn't really make sense there,
either.
Be that as it may, the socket path and filename is...
$TMPDIR/claws-mail-<UID>
UID is of course the user-id number. I've no idea what path claws
defaults to if $TMPDIR is unset, since it's set by my system scripts here
so always exists in the environment unless deliberately unset.
When I setup my second instance for feeds, it kept trying to use the same
socket even when I pointed it at a different config, until I (think I)
happened across some documentation mentioning the socket in $TMPDIR
(either that or I straced the startup, discovered the socket in tmp, and
searched for and found the docs reference to it later, IDR which at this
point), after which I immediately created a wrapper script that set
$TMPDIR to something else before starting the feeds instance, and all of
a sudden the second instance "magically" worked! =:^)
Now that I've actually run into that problem once, I expect I'll remember
to check for socket or dbus syncro the next time an app keeps trying to
use the one instance when I'm trying to create a second, but this was the
first time I'd run into that problem, so it took me awhile to figure out
what was causing it, tho it all immediately made sense when I did, and I
kicked myself for taking so long to realize the problem.
Hope that answers the question...
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