MailScanner restart fails?

[Julian Field]

At 19:03 14/11/2002, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>I know you do a tremendous job with MS and I am thankful for it.  This
>is a minor problem and you can take all the time you need to fix it.

:-)

>If the init.d script fails to kill all processes with the killproc
>function, why don't you try something different such as:
>kill $(for i in $(awk '/^ *PID dir =/{print $NF}' 
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf)/*; do echo ${i##*.}; done)
>if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
>    echo_success
>else
>    echo_failure
>fi

Just need to ensure that there aren't pid files there that shouldn't be. 
But otherwise looks good. The init.d script is on my list of things to work on.

>You already have the process IDs, why not use them?

So long as they are trustworthy...


>I've replaced the killproc by my suggestion and it works fine here.
>
>Denis
>Le jeu 14/11/2002 à 12:07, Julian Field a écrit :
> > 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).
>--
>Denis Beauchemin <Denis.Beauchemin at USherbrooke.ca>
>Université de Sherbrooke

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