Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

Tue Oct 29 10:03:29 GMT 2002

Genius - works a treat

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Paul Houselander
Sent: 29 October 2002 10:02
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

I didnt replace it I just placed it below e.g.

  # Next try "pidof"
        pid=`pidof $1`
        if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then
                echo $pid
                return 0
        fi

   # Next try "pidof"
        pidof -o $$ -o $PPID -o %PPID -x $1 || \
        pidof -o $$ -o $PPID -o %PPID -x ${base}

Cheers

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: Gavin  <mailto:gavin at NETERGY.COM> Nelmes-Crocker
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

could you just make it a bit clearer for me please - where exactly did
you insert this in below - do you replace the current #next try pidof ?
- I'm using a dev box but its easier to get it right first time :-)

Thanks Gavin

# A function to find the pid of a program.
pidofproc() {
        # Test syntax.
        if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
                echo "Usage: pidofproc {program}"
                return 1
        fi

        # First try "/var/run/*.pid" files
        if [ -f /var/run/$1.pid ] ; then
                pid=`head -1 /var/run/$1.pid`
                if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then
                        echo $pid
                        return 0
                fi
        fi

        # Next try "pidof"
        pid=`pidof $1`
        if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then
                echo $pid
                return 0
        fi

        # Finally try to extract it from ps
        ps ax | awk 'BEGIN { prog=ARGV[1]; ARGC=1 }
                           { if ((prog == $5) || (("(" prog ")") == $5)
||
                             (("[" prog "]") == $5) ||
                           ((prog ":") == $5)) { print $1 ; exit 0 } }'
$1
}

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Paul Houselander
Sent: 29 October 2002 08:48
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

My initial question did not relate to a cobalt, but I do have access to
a Raq4 so tried it out and have the same problem with the init script
not successfully stopping MailScanner, however it does work fine on my
RedHat 7.2 system.

On the cobalt, the pidofproc function in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions does
not return anything.

However, after comparing the pidofproc function on the cobalt and redhat
systems I added (after making a backup of "functions")

   # Next try "pidof"
        pidof -o $$ -o $PPID -o %PPID -x $1 || \
        pidof -o $$ -o $PPID -o %PPID -x ${base}

To the pidofproc function on the cobalt, now the init script works fine
and is able to stop mailscanner.

As Cobalts are strange beasts I dont know whether this is going to break
anything else, but seems ok at the moment.

Cheers

Paul

----- Original Message -----

From: Gavin  <mailto:gavin at NETERGY.COM> Nelmes-Crocker
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

this also matches with mine and a a couple of others problem but on a
Cobalt RaQ in the the init script doesn't stop the mailscanner has the
init script got broken somewhere? this section seems to be related to
all the PIDs for mailscanner but its commented out and I couldn't find
any killproc info for Mailscanner in the init file - but then this bit
is a bit of mystery for me anyway.

# Get a string of all the PIDs of MailScanner
#MailScannerPids() {
#       cd $PIDDIR || return 1
#       PIDLIST=`ls | grep '^MailScanner.' | sed -e 's/MailScanner.//g'`
#       echo PIDLIST
#       return 0
#}

Regards

Gavin
ps I also have a whole bunch of PIDs in /var/spool/Mailscanner which
don't get deleted

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Paul Houselander
Sent: 28 October 2002 16:50
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

Im using

RedHat 7.2 and the rpm MailScanner 4.03-1

I seem to recall this being discussed but cant find any previous mention
of it.

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

Thanks

Paul

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