I'm running dovecot under runit:
#!/bin/sh echo '/var/core/%p' > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern ulimit -n 8096 ulimit -c unlimited exec /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F
(that way, together with incron, I can automatically generate the coredumps I'm posting all the time)
If I apply a patch and recompile, what is the fastest way of restarting dovecot?
Which part of the process structure can be killed and takes all it's children with it?
├─runsvdir─┬─runsv───ntpd
│ ├─runsv─┬─dovecot─┬─2*[dovecot-auth]
│ │ │ ├─1203*[imap]
│ │ │ ├─64*[imap-login]
│ │ │ ├─64*[managesieve-log]
│ │ │ └─64*[pop3-login]
│ │ └─svlogdkillall dovecot? Is that guaranteed to wipe out ALL child processes as well?
I had to use (at least in the past):
sv d /var/service/dovecot killall dovecot killall -9 imap-login ps auxwww|grep dovecot
to make sure everything would be dead...
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