hard shut down of system

["surabhi.ahuja" <surabhi.ahuja@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

if postmaster is running and i do,

 

kill -9 -1

i.e. i did abrupt shut down

now when i brought back the system

i am not able to start postmaster

actually i want to simulate, the scenario is which the user will do

'hard shut down / Power off'
while system is in working state..

and i want to ensure that postmaster is able to recover from this kind of errors when
the system is is brought up..

how should i handle the above situation?