[Dovecot] Killing Dovect, an unpleasant surprise
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri Jan 30 01:22:41 EET 2009
On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stewart Dean wrote:
> Surprise. After switching from 1.0.15 to 1.1.8 and doing the kill,
> I found that all the imap-login instances had been inherited by the
> root (1) process and did not go away.
> Yikes! An Unpleasant Surprise.
> So instead of being down for a minute, I was out for a much more
> noticeable 5-7 minutes, while I QUICK did an awk of the ps list to
> give me the pids and then xarg killed them. My boss asked me if
> this was a pink slip notice. :(
>
> Is this The Way Things Will Be? Is there a new way to kill
> everything DC related quickly and cleanly?
Can you reproduce this on a test system? They should go away
immediately.
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