Problem with "service MailScanner stop"

[Denis Beauchemin]

Hello,

I still have problems stopping MailScanner (or restarting it) with the
"service MailScanner stop" command on my RH 7.3 system.  I'm using MS
4.04-1.

See what happens:

# ls -l /var/run/MailScanner/
total 24
-rw-------    1 root     root            6 Oct 29 08:53 MailScanner.26164
-rw-------    1 root     root            6 Oct 29 08:53 MailScanner.26167
-rw-------    1 root     root            6 Oct 29 08:53 MailScanner.26168
-rw-------    1 root     root            6 Oct 29 08:54 MailScanner.26169
-rw-------    1 root     root            6 Oct 29 08:54 MailScanner.26170
-rw-------    1 root     root            6 Oct 29 08:54 MailScanner.26174
# ps -efww | grep [mM]ail
root     26150     1  0 08:53 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections
root     26155     1  0 08:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
root     26164     1  0 08:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailSca
root     26167 26164  0 08:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailSca
root     26168 26164  0 08:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailSca
root     26169 26164  0 08:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailSca
root     26170 26164  0 08:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailSca
root     26174 26164  1 08:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailSca
# service MailScanner stop
Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:       We haven't got any child processes, which isn't righ
We have just tried to reap a process which wasn't one of ours!, No child process
                                                           [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
# ls -l /var/run/MailScanner/
total 0
# ps -efww | grep [mM]ail
root     26204     1  7 08:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailSca
# service MailScanner stop
Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [FAILED]
# ps -efww | grep [mM]ail
#

It looks like a new MS process is spawned right when I issue the first
stop command.  This process is not registered in the
/var/run/MailScanner directory.

Issuing a second stop command kills it for good.

Any idea what is causing this?

Thanks again!

Denis
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Denis Beauchemin, analyste
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