Hi,

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 06:13:13PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> One thing in particular I'm interested in is the daemonization logic:
> 
> What's the right way to start it up and shut it down? Starting: smtpd.
> Okay, solved.
> 
> But shutting down -- smtpctl? Or is this the same as sending SIGTERM
> to the master process? What's the best way to handle this?
> 

Interesting question with simple answer:

By design, the daemon can never be interrupted "at the wrong time".

It is completely safe to kill it with a signal, it won't leave it in any
kind of weird state. Alternatively, you can use "smtpctl stop" which ...
will tell the parent process to raise a signal ;-) 


-- 
Gilles Chehade

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