Re: [Exim] Safe Kill

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Yann Golanski wrote:

> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:35:23PM +0200, Marius Vincent wrote:
> > How do I tell exim to finish off it's current connections?
>
> killall -9 exim ???
>
> > For e.g. I have constantly about 10 - 30 mailtransfers happening
> > simultaneously.
> > I want exim to refuse new transports/connections and finish off with what it
> > is busy with before I kill the exim pid and reload it.
> >
> > How??
>
> Not sure what you mean here. If it is a re-read config you want to do,
> then just HUP the deamon. Any proccess started after that will have the
> new config on. The old proccesses will still use the old config untill
> they die.
>

im not sure ither,

maby you want somthing like:

kill -1 `cat /var/spool/exim/exim-daemon.pid`



robert