Subj : feature request - kill binkd by flagfile To : Michael Dukelsky From : mark lewis Date : Tue Jun 19 2018 09:31 am On 2018 Jun 19 11:38:50, you wrote to Torsten Bamberg: MD> It should not be done in binkd, it is a job for a shell script. that's what he's trying to do but the cron-executed shell script cannot shut down binkd... that's what the (disk-based) semaphore is for... if we could shut down binkd via semaphore, so many mailer related tasks could be automated instead of having to be manually run like now... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... No, of course I don't mind telling you how to go to hell. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .