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++

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