Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, sergey ivanov wrote: > > >>Hi All, >> I have question about debian's start-stop script. >>If debian's start-stop daemon just kills XMail, which is very quick >>operation, why default /etc/init.d/xmail script writes `date` into >>$XMAIL_ROOT/.shutdown and waits a lot of time while this file dissapears? >> Is killing XMail process safe for mail server operation? Or I must tell >>XMail to stop by creating .shutdown file in it's directory and wait >>while it finished and closed what it is doing now? > > > Brutally killing is *never* good :) But Davide, there is written in http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#server%20shutdown that killing in linux initiate of server's shutdown process. Explain, please, what may be the difference in killing by debian's start-stop daemon and issuing "kill -INT `cat /var/run/XMail.pid`" cammand? Sergey
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