Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: Oliver Cook CC: Philip Hazel, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Process failed while writing...
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:35:33 +0100, Oliver Cook wrote:
> Just a thought, ought hupping an exim child cause it to
> fail like it did?
From a pure UNIX point of view, the child can't really "re-read its
configuration and start up as if new" because it's in the middle of a
delivery. Whether it should have logged a useful message (.e.g "exiting
on signal 1") is a different story.
Regardless, this is an experience you can learn something from. :-)
It's very good practice to reserve killall for those situations where
you have a desperate resource problem on your system. The utility is
horribly abused. Daemons that spawn children write out pidfiles for a
jolly good reason. Welcome to it. :-)
