[Dovecot] 1.0.beta6 released

[Chris Wakelin]

Sorry! I should have said something (particularly as I'm on the CVS
mailing list so could see you changed it). I'd realised about the
logging, but that's a small price to pay for being able to upgrade
on-the-fly.

Perhaps an alternative is to have some way to signal the master process
to re-exec itself when its binary has been replaced. Sounds tricky
though, especially as would need to grab all the open pipes somehow.

Failing that, an alternative kill signal sounds like the way to go.

Best Wishes,
Chris

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Where were you when everyone said they wanted them killed and no-one but
> me supported the old behavior? ;) Guess I'll make it configurable. Or
> maybe alternative kill signal, eg. SIGINT?
> 
> Although the reason why I figured that maybe it's a good idea to kill
> them anyway is because after master is killed, the processes can no
> longer log anything because all logging went through master.
> 
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:41 +0100, Chris Wakelin wrote:
>> Seconded! I was happy with killing the master process and then doing
>> "pkill imap; pkill pop3" if I wanted to kill off the sessions too. Also
>> what happens if the master process dies (e.g. runs out file
>> descriptors)? Before, it could be restarted.
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Chris
>>
>> Jens Laas wrote:
>>> (06.04.12 kl.11:08) Timo Sirainen skrev följande till dovecot at dovecot.org:
>>>
>>>>     * Killing dovecot master process now kills all IMAP and POP3
>>>>       processes also.
>>> Does this mean I cannot upgrade dovecot on my production server without
>>> all currently logged on users being thrown out?
>>> If so they wont like it :-). Could this be configurable ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the great software,
>>> Jens
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