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. :( >> >> >> >> > > -- > Taymour A El Erian > System Division Manager > T.E. Data > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.tedata.net > Tel: +(202)-7494025 > Ext: 1101 -- Syed Qutubuddin Ahmad Network Engineer CubeXS Private Limited.
