Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Julian Field]

At 18:24 28/10/2002, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 11:19, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 16:50 28/10/2002, you wrote:
> > >RedHat 7.2 and the rpm MailScanner 4.03-1
> > >
> > >Directorys with the same name as the pid are being created in
> > >/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming, but are not being cleaned up on a restart
> > >or stop - is this as it should be?.
> > >Is their any resason I should not delete them in the stop and restart
> > >parts of /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner
> >
> > What do you think? Would you like me to extend the init.d script so that it
> > clears out MailScanner/incoming? Any good reasons for *not* doing it?
> >
>It would seem to me that the only pid files that should be there are
>those associated with what should be an active instance of MailScanner.
>The way it appears to work now the list of pid files will essentially
>grow without bound

I'm not sure quite why this is. Need to take a look at the forking code again.

>  and you can't tell from casual examination of the
>directory which pid files correspond to an active process. I can see
>where this might become a problem on a busy server where you only
>stop/restart MailScanner when it is misbehaving rather than on a
>regularly scheduled basis.

Indeed.
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