This is to announce the release of Pound v1.8.4. This is primarily a
bug-fix interim release.

Changes in this version:

- added a -c run-time switch (check-only). Running Pound with this flag
will cause it to process the config file and exit immediately
afterwards.

- added a -v run-time switch (verbose). Running Pound with this flag
will cause it to show error messages to the standard error even if the
program was configured to use syslog, at least until the program
"daemonizes" itself. This allows you to see on screen any errors that
may occur while processing the config file and early run-time errors
(conflicting ports, etc).

- based on ideas from various people here modified the pid file
mechanism: instead of creating a file pound_pid.nnn Pound will now
append its process number to a file called pound.pid (fixed name). The
file may contain more than one pid if you have multiple Pound instances.

The software is at version 1.8.4 (beta quality). Further testing 
(especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are
welcome.[...]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:42:26AM +0200, Robert Segall wrote:[...]

Those look like handy features
[...]

Is there a reason why specifying a pidfile is not allowed ?
It's much cleaner than writing several pids in the same pidfile, and it
doesn't break with pidfile conventions (1 pidnumber per pidfile)

greets,[...]

[...]

I concur! Especially when you have a number of pound instances for different
applications (one pound each), I see no easy way now to kill only those which
belong to "Application A" without breaking those belonging to other
applications, too. Or am I missing something?

Regards,
Matthias Gärtner

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Steven Van Acker [mailto:deepstar(at)ulyssis.org] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 11:31
An: pound(at)apsis.ch
Betreff: Re: ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v1.8.4


On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:42:26AM +0200, Robert Segall wrote:[...]

Those look like handy features
[...]

Is there a reason why specifying a pidfile is not allowed ? It's much cleaner
than writing several pids in the same pidfile, and it doesn't break with
pidfile conventions (1 pidnumber per pidfile)

greets,[...]

This is to announce the release of Pound v1.8.5. This is primarily a
bug-fix interim release.

Changes in this version:

- added a CRLlist configuration directive. This allows putting the CRL
in a separate file (as opposed to the CAlist). Probably cleaner that
way.

- tweaked the final SSL_shutdown - some people have complained that it
caused problems with non-MS browsers and/or WebDAV clients. Let me know
how it works.

The software is at version 1.8.5 (beta quality). Further testing 
(especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are
welcome.[...]