Thanks Taymour,
  This worked for me too. quite easy solution, although as you said its not
an orthodox one.

thanks anyway.
Regards,

> I have the same problem, so here is what I do (although it is not good)
> I do qmailctl stop
> then qmailctl stat and get the pid of qmail-send
> do a kill pid-of-qmail-send
> this way qmail is stopped, to start it again just qmailctl start
>
> Syed Qutubuddin Ahmad wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>  I am using qmail-1.03 with ldap patch 20020801. I start/stop qmail
>>  using
>>ucsp-0.88, daemontools-0.76. Redhat 7.2.
>>
>>  The problem is that , when i stop qmail (qmailctl stop), sometimes
>>  qmail-
>>todo process and qmail-clean process hangs. I mean when i run 'ps aux'
>>,it shows
>>
>>qmails   24894  0.0  0.0  1408  352 ?        Z    Aug23   0:26 [qmail-
>>todo<defunct>]
>>qmailq   24895  0.0  0.0  1384  328 ?        Z    Aug23   0:06 [qmail-
>>clean<defunct>}
>>
>>but when i start qmail , status remains the same. although smtpd starts
>>working and getting the mails. but the mails are not processed.
>>And these processes never recover. I tried to kill these two processes
>>manually, but couldn't. these don't die away. And i am left with no
>>other option except to just reboot the machine.
>>Infact (qmailctl stop  == svc -d /service/qmail-send)(same for
>>qmail-smtpd) and (qmailctl start == svc -u /service/qmail-send)
>>
>>Any help please... this is my second mail :(((
>>I just don't want to reboot my mail server everytime i need to do some
>>maintenance work. e.g. queue management etc. :(
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> System Division Manager
> T.E. Data
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