> > The guy who made the script did simply test shutting and restarting the > > amavis/spamd daemon up and down in its own test environment, > which basicly > > is low mail load or even no mail at all. > > > > After a while amavis is doing it's dirty job, I noticed it > needs a lot of > > time to shut down. It takes to me something around 10 secs in > the average > > and sometimes it takes even more. So, a 'sleep 5' simply wouldn't fit. > > To shut down amavisd, use the command: amavisd stop > To restart amavisd, use the command: amavisd reload > > These commands will only exit after they have completed their job, > i.e. waiting for the existing daemon to have stopped.
Ah, Mark. Really many many thanks for this perl of wisdom. So, I don't have a Linux distribution running on my servers? May you suggest to me the kind of OS brand I'm running? > Fiddling directly with pid file, kill, sleep, etc., is unwise, > and most likely much less careful compared to how amavisd does it. Hopefully, amavisd doesn't shuts or starts by itself. It even installs by itself... > Mark giampaolo
