dovecot - Apr 2006 - imap processes remaing after dovecot shutdown

Hello,

I'm using dovecot-1.0.beta3. When I shutdown dovecot (kill -term on the 
master-pid) the main process disappears, but all the child processes 
still remain. Why doesn't dovecot kill them as I shutdown the 
master-process? When I shutdown mysql, all child processes will be 
shutdown, too. When I shutdown apache, all child processes willbe 
shutdown, too. Thats what I expect on every application.
Usually there is no need to shutdown dovecot. But for some reasons, from 
time to time 50 and more processes of one user are running and I don't 
know how else to get rid of them. I don't like to kill the child 
processes always manually.

Regards
Marten

Tere.
> Usually there is no need to shutdown dovecot. But for some reasons, 
> from time to time 50 and more processes of one user are running and I 
> don't know how else to get rid of them. I don't like to kill the
child
> processes always manually.
>
killall -9 dovecot kills them all


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Sysadmin

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 17:40 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using dovecot-1.0.beta3. When I shutdown dovecot (kill -term on the
> master-pid) the main process disappears, but all the child processes 
> still remain. Why doesn't dovecot kill them as I shutdown the 
> master-process? When I shutdown mysql, all child processes will be 
> shutdown, too. When I shutdown apache, all child processes willbe 
> shutdown, too. Thats what I expect on every application.
> Usually there is no need to shutdown dovecot. But for some reasons, from 
> time to time 50 and more processes of one user are running and I don't 
> know how else to get rid of them. I don't like to kill the child 
> processes always manually.
This has been requested once in a while, and I suppose I'll have to do
that. For now there's no other way than killall imap or killall pop3
though.

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