On Ter, 15 Nov 2011, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Yes, but I've stopped and restarted dovecot. New processes *later* come up as flagged by checkrestart as using old versions of upgraded files. So, something is still getting old files somehow..... with no further system changes whatsoeverAndrew McGlashan wrote:# checkrestart Found 2 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (1 distinct packages) These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: dovecot-imapd: 18981 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap 14795 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
I believe these are the worker processes spawned by the main dovecot server, one for each connection a user makes. They only go away when the user disconnects, even if the main server is restarted, in order not to forcedly disconnect users.
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