[Dovecot] Killing Dovect, an unpleasant surprise

[Timo Sirainen]

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.