[Dovecot] stopping dovecot

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Saturday 26 July 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >> I have imap-login processes staying arround and occupying port
> >
> > Ah, well, that's a different question! Stopping dovecot won't kill the
> > processes with actual logins. -> killall imap-login
>
> It does kill everything. 

"It" means what? 

kill -TERM `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` ? That doesn't kill imap-login 
processes.

> I don't know if there's anything that Dovecot 
> can do about the "Address already in use" problem. It seems that the
> OS is keeping the listener alive for some reason longer than the
> processes exist.

imap-login processes still exist so this behaviour is valid. 

I've checked few init.d/dovecot scripts and there is no imap-login killing in 
these, so I assumed that sending TERM to master causes master to kill it's 
childs but again - that's not the case here since dovecot process dies while 
imap-login is still alive.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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