In all my qmail installations it often takes forever to shutdown or restart qmail. I'm getting the message: "qmail needs more time to finish. Sleeping 1 second..." which keeps repeating for sometimes 1/2 or a whole hour. Longer when the mail queue is large. Like, right now it has been about 1.5 hours on one machine which has about 250,000 messages waiting in the queue. I'm not quite sure what program is giving the message. I'm on RedHat6.2, I'm using ucspi-tcp and daemon tools. My qmail is from qmail-1.03-102memphis.src.rpm. I restart qmail with: /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail.init restart Am I doing something wrong, or this how it is supposed to be? And, if so, is there a faster way of shutting down qmail? This same thing will happen if I need to reboot the server. It might be delayed for 1 hour or so, waiting for qmail to shut down. Nothing is being sent while qmail "needs more time". The remote processes die out pretty quickly. Help! - Flemming
