If Only I Didn't Keep Coming Back

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006, at 11:14AM by Eric Richardson

Every time I go to install qmail I cringe (the Rick Moen rant I linked to back then has moved here). I've run qmail for a long time, probably since the late 90s. I like the fact that I usually end up installing it and then pretty much forgetting about it.

But, well, I sort of have to forget about it because I can never understand how to stop it. Inevitably I end up letting the server just run, and when I finally do have to kill it for some reason that involves me tearing my hair out while trying to kill svcscan processes that keep restarting everything I stop.

Yet somehow I keep ending up with qmail. I can't escape it.