PMDF System Manager's Guide

On OpenVMS and UNIX, you can shut down individual servers. To shut down a server, issue the OpenVMS command

$ PMDF SHUTDOWN server

or the UNIX command

# pmdf shutdown server

with pop3 (to shut down both legacy mailbox and PMDF MessageStore mailbox POP servers), pop_server (to shut down only the PMDF MessageStore mailbox POP server), imap (to shut down both legacty mailbox and PMDF MessageStore mailbox IMAP servers), or imap_server (to shut down only the PMDF MessageStore mailbox IMAP server), as appropriate, as the server parameter. This will cause such servers on your node to exit after the currently open connections are closed.

On NT, to shut down a server you must shut down the Dispatcher itself, e.g.,

C:\> pmdf shutdown dispatcher

or edit the Dispatcher configuration file to remove the service definition in question and then restart the Dispatcher.

On OpenVMS, to shutdown servers on certain nodes, use the /NODE qualifier. To shutdown servers on the entire cluster, use the /CLUSTER qualifier.

Shutting down the Service Dispatcher itself with the OpenVMS command

$ PMDF SHUTDOWN DISPATCHER

or the UNIX command

# pmdf shutdown dispatcher

or the NT command

C:\> pmdf shutdown dispatcher

will also cause the POP3 and IMAP servers to shut down, as well as shutting down any other services handled by the Service Dispatcher; see Chapter 11 for details.