Re: What happens when qmail-send is killed?

[thomas . erskine-dated-f20a46fba97083ca]

On Wed, 5 May 1999, 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)

What I do if I'm in a hurry, is kill qmail-send, and rather than waiting
for it to die, kill all the qmail-remotes.  Since qmail-send is waiting on
the qmail-remotes (indirectly), this finishes things off quickly.

> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
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