Kill the specified component.

Syntax

pmdf kill [component]

Command Qualifiers	Defaults
None.	None.

restrictions

On UNIX, must have the same process-id as the process to be killed, or be superuser. This utility is not available on NT.

Parameters

component

The PMDF component to be killed. Valid values are job_controller, dispatcher. If no parameter is specified, all components are killed.

Description

The pmdf kill utility immediately and indiscriminately kills the specified process (using kill -9), even if that process is in the middle of transferring e-mail. So use of the pmdf shutdown utility, which performs an orderly shutdown, is generally preferable.