PRAYER-SSL-PRUNE(8)

✨ PRAYER-SSL-PRUNE — purge stale SSL session data ✨

okay so bestie, this is prayer-ssl-prune, and it lives in section 8 of the manual (LOCAL manual, if we're being specific 🫶). she's a little cron-job icon and honestly she's doing the most important quiet work 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

prayer-ssl-prune [--config-file file] [[--config-option name=value] ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea, fr fr: prayer-ssl-prune is the one you run periodically — like, think once a day, a cute little daily ritual 🎀 — but only if you're using SSL session caching. And by that I mean ssl_session_timeout > 0 in prayer.cf. If you've got that set, she's relevant to your life. If not… she's just vibing 🌈

What does she actually do tho? She removes old transaction logs and stale session data. Basically a glow-up for your spool directory. Out with the old, in with the fresh ✨

And here's the slay: she accepts the same configuration-overriding options as prayer(8) and prayer-session(8). So if you already know how to talk to those two, you already know how to talk to her. iykyk 💅

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• PRAYER_CONFIG_FILE — set this and you get to pick which configuration file she uses 💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /usr/local/prayer/etc/prayer.cf — the default configuration file. the classic. the default queen 👑
• /var/spool/prayer/ssl_scache/ — default location of the SSL session cache database, aka where the session data hangs out 🗂️

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• prayer(8)
• prayer.cf(5)

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

This manual page was put together by Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>, using documentation written by David Carter <dpc22@cam.ac.uk>. shoutout to them, absolute legends 🫶

not me getting emotional over a manpage. anyway. this one's from The Prayer Webmail Interface, dated 17 August 2008, and yes that's the PRAYER-SSL-PRUNE(8) page itself 💖 go run her, bestie, your stale sessions are NOT gonna prune themselves 🌸🦋✨