Kill the master exim process.
/some_path/exim/bin/exiwhat
That will list what all the various exim processes are doing. Just kill off
the one with 'daemon' next to it in the output. The others will simply finish
whatever they were doing as normal - gracefully, which is what you want.
james
On 17-May-00 robert rotman wrote:
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>
> 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`
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> robert
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