[Dovecot] stopping dovecot

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Sat Jul 26 00:42:09 EEST 2008


This may be a silly question but how to correctly stop dovecot and be sure 
that it's possible to start it again?

kill -TERM `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` doesn't work well.

I have imap-login processes staying arround and occupying port which leads to 
Fatal: listen(0.0.0.0, 993) failed: Address already in use
when trying to start again 2s after stopping.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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