RC scripts - restart not working

[David Hooton]

Hi Kevin,

Our systems software (not controlled by us) restarts sendmail every 15
mins - this causes MailScanner to try to run in parrallel with Sendmail.

We've managed to circumvent this by adding a script at the end of the
cron job that "Restarts" MailScanner and kills any rouge Sendmail processes.

I'm sure there must be a better way, any and all suggestions
appreciated. Unfortunately the systems software is all encrypted code
and can't be altered :(

Cheers!

Dave


Kevin Spicer wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:09, David Hooton wrote:
>
>
>>I think the problem is that the time to cleanup processes is longer
>
> than
>
>>5 seconds sometimes.
>
>
>>Perhaps MS could be made to just dump any open SMTP sessions for later
>>transmission?
>
>
> Could you make it clear exactly why you need to restart MailScanner.
> Are you changing something in the configuration automatically or
> something?
>
> Is it the MailScanner processes or the MTA you want to restart.  I'd
> have thought it unlikely you'd want to stop all 3.  If its MailScanner
> why isn't a reload sufficient  (you could do that simply by sending a
> HUP signal to all MS processes.
>
>
>
>
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Regards,

David Hooton
Senior Partner
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