On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Hill Ruyter wrote: > When I stop exim (I use invoke-rc.d exim4 <stop> <start>) > I find that there is still a process running for exim after I have stopped > it
All you are stopping is the Exim daemon. Other Exim processes that happen to be running (receiving a message, delivering a message) are not affected. Because of the way Exim is designed, there is no concept of "stopping Exim". Analogy: think about something like telnet or ssh. You can stop the daemon that listens for incoming connections, but there is no concept of "stopping telnet" or "stopping ssh" - i.e. of preventing the command "telnet" or "ssh" from being run. Similarly, you can't stop a person or process from running /sbin/exim (or whatever the binary is called). The daemon is not needed to receive a local message or do deliver it (either locally or remotely). The only way to prevent that happening is to remove the command, or break the configuration. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
