Mailscanner stopped, sendmail running...

[Arthur Sherman]

> Which sendmail was still running? The main listener? The main 
> queue runner? Or a
> child of one or the other that was servicing a current transaction?
> 
> AFAIK stopping MailScanner won't force-kill children that are 
> currently
> connected and performing network transactions. Those will 
> continue to run until
> their current transaction completes and then exit.
> 
> (Of course, take that with a grain of salt, but every time 
> I've seen this occur
> before, it was a child that was in the process of receiving 
> mail from or
> delivering mail to a remote site.)

AFAIK, those were childs.

Btw, is it possible to make MailScanner wait for childs to exit before it
reports successful service shutdown?

Thank you for your help.


Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

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