shadowbox(at)punkass(dot)com wrote:
> why is it bad to kill -9 the postmaster? any links? i'm wondering why
> is it bad...
The postmaster gets no way to shut down cleanly. It just isn't as good
as using a normal kill and waiting a few seconds. This is true for
killing most unix processes. Use kill -9 only when other kills fail.
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