Svscan should not be stopped. It just enter the directories and spawns
supervise processes. Supervise should be used to start/stop services.
You can use the svc command to restart your qmail system.
man svc might help you.
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Davi
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 21:11, SNFettig Listserv wrote:
> I know this may be off-topic, but since most of the people on this list
> seem to be familiar with svscan, I thought I might try. I use svscan to
> start all of my qmail daemons and can't figure out how to restart it safely
> on my FreeBSD 4.0 sys. Thus far, I have tried to kill, HUP, etc. for the
> service itself, with disastrous results... What I am trying to do is simply
> restart all of the qmail daemons. Perhaps I'm going about it the wrong
> way. pop3d, smtp and the qmail rc scripts are all started with links to
> /service. Startup is going very smoothly, same with shutdown - but no
> restart.
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Thanks,
> SF
