Directorys in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Julian Field]

I don't really want to go changing the "functions" file :-(

At 08:48 29/10/2002, you wrote:
>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: <mailto:gavin at NETERGY.COM>Gavin Nelmes-Crocker
>To: <mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>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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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
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