On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 02:50:24PM -0700, Flemming Funch wrote: > 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. This is from the SysV init scripts for qmail. What I do: /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stop ctrl-Z bg killall qmail-remote (watch out, killall might not do what you want on non-linux systems!) Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++