RC scripts - restart not working

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Fri Aug 29 09:21:05 IST 2003


Hi!

> 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! :)

Why dont you use 'reload' ? It will reload your configs...

Bye,
Raymond.



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