MailScanner restart fails?

[Julian Field]

At 16:53 14/11/2002, you wrote:
>Le jeu 14/11/2002 à 11:34, Julian Field a écrit :
>
> > >And when I try to restart MailScanner it gives this output:
> > >
> > >[root at linuxgw rules]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart
> > >Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
> > >          MailScanner:       We haven't got any child processes, which
> > >isn't right!, No child processes at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 191.
> > >We have just tried to reap a process which wasn't one of ours!, No child
> > >processes at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 194.
> >
> > This is down to the exact order in which the processes are shut down. I
> > have removed this error message from the next release as it causes 
> confusion.
>
>Julian,
>
>I don't believe that not printing the error message will make things OK
>since a restart does a stop followed by a start and the start can't
>succeed unless the stop has stopped all processes (which it doesn't).

The error messages you included didn't imply that the stop didn't stop 
everything.
I know there are problems with the init.d script, it's far from perfect. I 
need to build a whole range of machines with different versions of 
different distributions installed, to sort this out. That takes time... 
(and requires me to be in my office).
-- 
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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