On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Soenke Ruempler wrote: > > Hi Davide, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote on Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:14 > PM: > >> What happen with a kill is that partially written messages >> can linger in >> the spool/mailbox. Messages won't be lost in any case, but >> garbage could >> be created by a kill. You could send a SIGINT, wait 3-4 >> seconds and then a >> SIGKILL. This reduces the probability of garbage messages, >> but it does not >> completely eliminate it. > > I thought of something in the shutdown process that kills open smtp/pop3 > connections. The problem here is that XMail sometimes takes ~10mins to > shutdown gracefully and then we've to use `killall XMail`. After that, XMail > shuts down immediately.
Well, killall kills it :) Look at the stop_xmail() inside the xmail script. Just wait no more than 10 seconds, and then send a kill. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
