Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:14:54 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: How to stop fetchmail(1) Message-ID: <19990906221454.A18020@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19990906193606.D281@marder-1> References: <19990906193606.D281@marder-1>
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Mark Ovens wrote:
> The manpage shows ``fetchmail --quit'' as the way to kill the
> fetchmail daemon but it doesn't state *how* it kills it. Does it
> just kill the daemon unconditionally or, and I suspect this is the
> case, if fetchmail is currently getting mail does it wait until
> the daemon goes back to the idle state before killing it?
Do what any hacker would do -- read the source. I looks like --quit just
sends a SIGTERM to the other fetchmail process, and that the SIGTERM
handler doesn't wait for mail to finish.
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