Shutdown errors

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Nov 30 15:19:59 GMT 2002


At 02:54 30/11/2002, you wrote:
>I'll be honest, I got lazy and didn't search the archive first. Should I
>be concerned about these errors when shutting down MailScanner? It's
>MailScanner version 4.05-3. Everything seems to run ok when it's
>running.

Don't worry about this, it's just some very paranoid coding on my part.
I've sorted out the error messages in the next release (which is very soon,
promise!).


>Thanks,
>James
>(I'm not really talking about the "FAILED" on the second stop. I assume
>that's because the Sendmail processes were already stopped the first
>time...)
>
>[root at chiadmin2 mail]# service 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  ]
>[root at chiadmin2 mail]# service MailScanner stop
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>          outgoing sendmail:                                [FAILED]

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