Re: zmailer kill scheduler

[Roy Bixler <rcb@ucp.uchicago.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:41:53PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:44:30PM -0500, Roy Bixler wrote:
> > I need a bit of guidance on the following, which is that if I execute
> > "zmailer kill scheduler", I notice that there are still some remaining
> > ZMailer scheduler processes running in attempts to deliver messages on
> > the queue.  Does this sound right in general?  If so, does anyone have
> > suggestions about the cleanest way to kill all scheduler processes?
> 
> With 'scheduler processes' I presume you do mean 'transport agents' ?

Yes.

> All transport agents are left behind, when the scheduler dies.
> Most of them die immediately, some live a bit longer.
> Eventually all will die.

Is there any sane way to make that occur immediately?  The scenario is
that we are running ZMailer on a high availability cluster.  Fail over
seems to be hampered sometimes and I suspect that the reason is that
the transport agents are still running and consequently the shared
disk partition can't be unmounted due to these processes still
accessing it.

-- 
Roy Bixler <rcb@ucp.uchicago.edu>
The University of Chicago Press
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