Bug#417562: cyrus-common-2.2: Cyrus init script does not stop all cyrus processes

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2007, Gilles Mocellin wrote:
>   
>> I have around 1800 imapd processes...
>> I think that's what happening, the processes are doing something. But, if I 
>> want to stop, whatever someone is doing, how do I do ?
>> I thought cyrmaster would have killed all theses processes.
>>     
>
> No, it doesn't.
>
> And really, the proper fix to it *does* require changing cyrmaster to do so,
> in the usual "wait n seconds, send sigkill, wait n seconds, bomb out with an
> error if any children are left".
>
>   

The hard part is making sure you don't leave the databases, client, etc.
in an inconsistent state.

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