Quick way to stop SpamD

[Matt Kettler]

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At 03:38 PM 10/20/2004, Sanjay K. Patel wrote:
>Does anyone have a quick command to stop SpamD. If I kill the spamD pid it
>just generates another.

I suspect you're ending up killing a spamd child, not the root process for
spamd.

Killing the forked workers spamd makes won't stop spamd, as the root
process will just fork more. This applies to pretty much all forking
servers (sendmail, httpd, named, etc).

If you started spamd with the -r parameter, you can use the resulting
pidfile to know which process ID is the root one. (Most people that use
this put it in something like /var/run/spamd.pid)

Otherwise, you'll have to find the oldest spamd in your ps listings and
kill that, or use killall if your OS has it.

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