RE: [exim] Killing Exim queue runners nicely?

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Author: Eli
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To: 'Ray Jackson', exim-users
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Subject: 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.