'service MailScanner stop' doesn't stop MailScanner the 1st time

[Julian Field]

At 22:06 11/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I noticed this on 2 machines (RH 7.2 and 7.3):
>
># ps axw|grep -i mail
>22138 ?        S      0:06 sendmail: accepting connections
>22143 ?        S      0:01 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
>22153 ?        S      0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
>/usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>15702 ?        S      0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
>/usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>15963 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
>/usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
># service MailScanner stop
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
># ps axw|grep -i mail
>22153 ?        D      0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
>/usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>15702 ?        D      0:01 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
>/usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>15963 ?        D      0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner
>/usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
># service MailScanner stop
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>          outgoing sendmail:                                [FAILED]
># ps axw|grep -i mail
>
>
>Only the 2nd 'service MailScanner stop' killed MailScanner processes. Why?
>Had I to wait a little more time (the processes were in D state)?

Yes. Give it some time to do the job, it is trying to be very nice to you
and is cleaning up all the temporary directories it will have created.
After doing the "stop", wait 10 seconds or so before the "ps".
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