[Dovecot] 1.0.beta6 released

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 21:42 +1000, Rob Middleton wrote:
> What about the alternate kill signal to the master just stopping 
> listening for new connections? (release the *:143 and *:110 handles).
> 
> If logging by syslog you can happily have two dovecot masters sending 
> log lines ... won't work in other cases I suppose (suppose that is what 
> I'm missing?)
> 
> With both a new master and an old master you can then also choose to go 
> and do a proper kill on your old master 24 hours later or something like 
> that to ensure nothing runs on the old binaries for longer than 24 hours 
> (as a proper kill on the master now kills all the relevant children).

I guess that would work. The master itself doesn't listen for new
connections, but it should just stop creating new login/auth processes.
It could also kill itself automatically after all the log pipes get
closed. But is it still worth it to do this? :)

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