At 07:40 PM Wednesday 5/5/99, Rick Myers wrote:
>On May 05, 1999 at 13:23:48 -0700, Mark Delany twiddled the keys to say:
>> qmail-remote has no permissions to touch the queue and there are no kill
>> calls in any of the qmail code, so:
>>
>> o nothing gets rid of running qmail-remotes (as also evidenced by the log
>> entries when you shutdown qmail-send)
>
>Yes, but a `shutdown' generally won't wait for qmail-anything to finish.
>At least on my system all processes get a -KILL within 30 seconds.
Right. But that's not how the standard qmail works, as others have noted.
Perhaps it's yet again the case of an rpm-styled installed doing "almost the
right thing". (I confess to continually seeing reasons why DjB was/is so
paranoid about others packaging up qmail).
A proper and normal qmail shutdown is an orderly affair where all outstanding
deliveries are completed and accepted as complete prior to qmail-send exiting.
>For what it's worth, I've noticed quite a bit fewer dupes since 1.03.
>And moreso since I've adopted the policy of giving qmail-send the -TERM
>and waiting for it to die naturally before rebooting.
You would need to demonstrate this via log entries. I have seen no change in
behaviour in this regard with 1.03
Regards.
