[Dovecot] stopping dovecot
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
arekm at maven.pl
Sat Jul 26 22:05:30 EEST 2008
On Saturday 26 July 2008, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 July 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> On Jul 26, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >>>> I have imap-login processes staying arround and occupying port
> >>>
> >>> Ah, well, that's a different question! Stopping dovecot won't kill the
> >>> processes with actual logins. -> killall imap-login
> >>
> >> It does kill everything.
> >
> > "It" means what?
> >
> > kill -TERM `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` ? That doesn't kill
> > imap-login processes.
>
> What do you have for the "shutdown_clients" option?
shutdown_clients: no
>
> I think the imap-login processes will hang around if there are SSL or
> proxy connections through them (but perhaps they shouldn't be
> "listen"-ing for new connections?).
It would be good if existing clients were not disconnected but starting
dovecot would be possible. That's how daemons for other services behave.
> Chris
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