but "-9" option is not a very healthy way of killing processes. I use "killall dovecot imap". But I agree that it should kill them all like it kills imap-auth etc.
--
Sebastjan
http://www.trepca.si/blog
On 4/1/06, Sysadmin <sysadmin@e-positive.ee> wrote:
Tere.
> Usually there is no need to shutdown dovecot. But for some reasons,
> from time to time 50 and more processes of one user are running and I
> don't know how else to get rid of them. I don't like to kill the child
> processes always manually.
>
killall -9 dovecot kills them all
--
Sysadmin