[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Would there be any reason not to use supervise for qmail-start?

I can't think of a good reason not to.

>I notice that much documentation (I'm still working on merging
>the various sources of documentation and resolving apparent
>conflicts)

Differences aren't necessarily conflicts. There's more than one way to 
skin a cat, you know.

>shows starting qmail-smtpd with supervise and tcpserver
>but just starts qmail-start by itself.

Look at "Life with qmail":

    http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html

>What I want is a clean way to shut qmail down, either smtp side
>(because I don't want anything coming in on the network) or the
>local side (because I might be messing with delivery targets) or
>both (because I'm shutting the whole system down).

A very slight modification to the "qmail" script in LWQ will allow
this.

-Dave

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