How many instances to spawn?

[Julian Field]

That's the init script being hopeless again :-(

At 10:45 22/11/2002, you wrote:
>On 22 November 2002 10:24 +0000 Julian Field
><mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
>>1 should be plenty.
>
>Thanks, just trying this but have noticed something odd. See output
>below:
>
>[root at mallard root]# /etc/init.d/MailScanner stop
>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.
>                                                           [  OK  ]
>         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>
>If I run this a second time:
>
>[root at mallard root]# /etc/init.d/MailScanner stop
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>         incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>         outgoing sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>
>
>So it needs to be run twice to get rid of what seems to be a remaining
>instance. This is with Max Children set to 1.
>
>Mike.

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