On 21.1.2010, at 16.35, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > 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] > │ │ └─svlogd > > killall dovecot? > Is that guaranteed to wipe out ALL child processes as well?
If you set shutdown_clients=yes. Although even with =no it should stop listening. > 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... I guess there can be bugs.. But in general the processes should notice immediately that master died, and immediately close their listeners and optionally shut down.
