On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, sergey ivanov wrote: > > Davide Libenzi wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, sergey ivanov wrote: > > > > > >>Hi All, > >> I have question about debian's start-stop script. > >>If debian's start-stop daemon just kills XMail, which is very quick > >>operation, why default /etc/init.d/xmail script writes `date` into > >>$XMAIL_ROOT/.shutdown and waits a lot of time while this file dissapears? > >> Is killing XMail process safe for mail server operation? Or I must tell > >>XMail to stop by creating .shutdown file in it's directory and wait > >>while it finished and closed what it is doing now? > > > > > > Brutally killing is *never* good :) > But Davide, there is written in > http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#server%20shutdown > that killing in linux initiate of server's shutdown process. > Explain, please, what may be the difference in killing by debian's > start-stop daemon and issuing "kill -INT `cat /var/run/XMail.pid`" cammand?
`kill -INT` is fine. I thought `kill -9` ... - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
