RE: [exim] Killing Exim queue runners nicely?

Ray wrote:
> We are moving our Exim queues off an NFS mount (always a bad
> idea to begin with I know!) onto the local file system. Now
> we have quite a large queue (~10000 messages), and we always
> have a few queue runners going. Is there a nice way to kill
> these queue runners before moving the spool - or can we
> safely just 'kill' them the normal way (i.e.
> 'killall exim') with the normal signal?

"killall -15 exim" seems to suffice. Sending a TERM signal at least lets it
die gracefully so it can tidy up and such. I've done this many times and
never had any issues.

Eli.