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.<br><br>-- <br>Sebastjan<br><a href="http://www.trepca.si/blog">
http://www.trepca.si/blog</a>
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sysadmin</b> <<a href="mailto:sysadmin@e-positive.ee">sysadmin@e-positive.ee</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tere.<br>> Usually there is no need to shutdown dovecot. But for some reasons,<br>> from time to time 50 and more processes of one user are running and I<br>> don't know how else to get rid of them. I don't like to kill the child
<br>> processes always manually.<br>><br>killall -9 dovecot kills them all<br><br><br>--<br>Sysadmin<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br><br>