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Comment #5 on issue 173 by dsallings: Can't stop|shutdown memcached
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=173
Please don't run memcached as root. That's always the wrong thing to do.
The text "uninstall" does not appear in the memcached sources in any
released version I can find. I looked specifically through these versions:
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.2.3
1.2.4
1.2.5
1.2.6
1.2.7
1.2.7-rc1
1.2.8
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.4-rc1
1.4.0
1.4.0-rc1
1.4.1
1.4.1-rc1
1.4.2
1.4.2-rc1
1.4.3
1.4.3-rc1
1.4.3-rc2
1.4.4
1.4.5
It *was* in the engine branch a while back *only* when compiled with the
__WIN32__ preprocessor symbol. Unless you're compiling a windows version
of memcached to run on Linux *and* calling that version 1.2.1, I have no
idea what you're running.