Feb
24

If Only I Didn't Keep Coming Back

Published: Friday, February 24, 2006, at 11:14AM

Every time I go to install qmail I cringe (the Rick Moen rant I linked to back then has moved here). I've run qmail for a long time, probably since the late 90s. I like the fact that I usually end up installing it and then pretty much forgetting about it.

But, well, I sort of have to forget about it because I can never understand how to stop it. Inevitably I end up letting the server just run, and when I finally do have to kill it for some reason that involves me tearing my hair out while trying to kill svcscan processes that keep restarting everything I stop.

Yet somehow I keep ending up with qmail. I can't escape it.

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eecue writes:

I love/hate qmail too and have been running for about that long... there are a couple ways to stop it, the best being sh /var/qmail/rc stop (if you have it installed in the nonsensical but default location /var/qmail)... if you want to just stop one of the services that you are running in /service/ then cd in to that directory: cd /service/qmail-send and type svc -t . which will terminate the service that svcscan is running or if you're pissed you can do a svc -k . which will send a kill signal to the process. sometimes when you stop qmail it takes a while to actually stop as it will go through and wait to process any transactions it is in the middle of. if you want to be nasty about it you can just kill -9 the offending services.

# on Feb.26.2006 AT 08:54 PM

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