Giampaolo, > > These commands will only exit after they have completed their job, > > i.e. waiting for the existing daemon to have stopped.
> ...So, I don't have a Linux distribution running on my servers? > May you suggest to me the kind of OS brand I'm running? Not sure what you are asking here. If you are asking for a recommendation on OS of choice, this is a highly individual matter, often religious. Use whatever you are comfortable with, and is being actively maintained. We run almost entire servers fleet on FreeBSD, and happy with the choice. > > Fiddling directly with pid file, kill, sleep, etc., is unwise, > > and most likely much less careful compared to how amavisd does it. > > Hopefully, amavisd doesn't shuts or starts by itself. No it doesn't. Also I never heard of a case where a master amavisd process would vanish. For a quick overview on a general amavisd-new system health I recommend running amavisd-nanny utility for a few seconds or minutes every now an then, e.g. once a day or when there is suspicion that things are busier or slower then expected. Mark
