I am not familiar with RHEL 7, but 'kill' is pretty much the equivalent of sending a SHUTDOWN command via 'lcmd' and should get rid of all worker processes once they complete their current transaction. You should see a SHUTDOWN command in the log from [log in to unmask] If you somehow end up doing 'kill -9' instead, the workers will remain until they exit due to not finding the main process when they need to signal it, which could take a while, possibly forever. I would check the log to see what happens when the 'kill' is issued, as well as trying it from the command line. Eric From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Kraczek Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 17:22 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: systemd registration of listserv on modern Linux Howdy, I tried dropping the L-Soft provided sysV script into /etc/init.d on my new RHEL7 listserv server, but found that stopping the service under systemd failed to kill all the ./lsv processes like it used to on RHEL5, leaving two ./lsv zombies to get in the way of maintenance operations. In general, killing the main Listserv PID as recommended by L-Soft just doesn't seem to kill Listserv anymore: kill `cat $LSVHOME/spool/listserv.PID` Since I couldn't find a reliable method to kill listserv all the way from the PID, I tried using the lcmd tool to issue a clean SHUTDOWN command to listserv. I couldn't convince listserv that root was authorized to run commands without making root@hostname a quiet, hidden Admin. Eventually I was able to convince lcmd to shutdown listserv, but I'm not sure if this is the best way. Since I was re-writing the init script, I figured I might as well learn systemd. I came up with the following systemd unit file, (which relies on root@hostname to be a Listserv admin): [Unit] Description=Listserv mailing lists by LSoft After=network.target postfix.service [Service] PIDFile=/home/listserv/spool/listserv.PID ExecStart=/home/listserv/go bg ExecReload=/home/listserv/go bg KillMode=process Restart=on-failure RestartSec=42s ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/lcmd SHUTDOWN [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Anyone have a better, more reliable way to register Listserv under systemd? Scott K IT Engineer, BYU ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list, click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1