RC scripts - restart not working

[Bret Hughes]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 21:24, David Hooton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Due to some systems software we have installed, we need to restart
> MailScanner every 15 minutes - this is not a problem, we don't mind the
> restart bit, that's ok.
>
> The problem we have is that the rc scripts don't always actually restart
> MailScanner.  We're running /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart but that
> seems to not work properly because MailScanner has to wait for all
> processes to stop.
>
> Our (not so great) work around is to script a service stop, wait 10
> seconds and then start MS as per normal.  Surely there's a better way..
>
> I am kinda erring on pointing the bone and saying the rc scripts are
> broken, but I'm not that kinda guy! :)
>

well, on my machine /etc/init.d/MailScanner simply waits 5 between the
stop and start.  It does seem kind of a bummer that it is not really
stopped when the stop call returns.  what is still happening at that
point?  Obviously there is something going on since the wait 5 is there.

I was going to suggest looking at /var/run/MailScanner.pid but I suspect
it is gone already.

Bret