Stopping MailScanner

[Denis Beauchemin]

Bill,

Same problem here.  When I want to shut everything down I stop
MailScanner and then sendmail and make sure there are no rogue processes
(ps -ef|grep [mM]ail).

I restart everything through MailScanner.

Denis
Le mer 12/11/2003 à 14:56, Bill Anderson a écrit :
> I have waited up to 5 minutes and they are still processing mail.  Can I go
> ahead and start mailscanner with these sendmail processes running, or do I
> need to shutdown sendmail before starting mailscanner again?  Thanks.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Stopping MailScanner
> 
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Bill Anderson [mailto:billa at STERLING.NET]
> > Envoyé : Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:50 PM
> > À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Objet : Stopping MailScanner
> >
> >
> > When I do an /etc/init.d/MailScanner stop, the mailscanner processes
> > shutdown, however, the sendmail processes are still running.
> 
> they may still run for some time, if they are processing messages, have you
> waited long enough?
> 
> 
> >
> > Is this normal behaviour?  In previous versions shutting down
> > MailScanner
> > would shutdown the sendmail processes as well.
> >
> > Do I need to shutdown sendmail to restart MailScanner?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ps.  I posted this earlier, however, I believe my question was hard to
> > understand.
> >
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