dovecot - Nov 2005 - Graceful shutdown

Hello all,

I am running Dovecot v1alpha4 on Fedora 4 from the command line (as opposed
to deamon).  Is there a recommended way to shut it down gracefully?  Or do I
just use killall -9 dovecot?  I'm not using the included version, so I
can't
do SERVICE DOVECOT STOP.

Thanks,

Cliff

--On Monday, November 28, 2005 12:13 PM -0600 Cliff Hayes <chayes at
afo.net>
wrote:
> I am running Dovecot v1alpha4 on Fedora 4 from the command line (as
> opposed to deamon).  Is there a recommended way to shut it down
> gracefully?  Or do I just use killall -9 dovecot?  I'm not using the
> included version, so I can't do SERVICE DOVECOT STOP.
The "service dovecot stop" issues "killproc dovecot" which
is a macro that
issues "kill -TERM" against its PID, waits up to 5 seconds for the pid
file
to go away, and issues "kill -KILL" if it still exists. (See 
/etc/init.d/dovecot and /etc/init.d/functions.)