Stopping MailScanner

[Furnish, Trever G]

No, that's not the way it ought to work.  The remaining sendmail processes
should not keep you from restarting sendmail or MailScanner.

First, let's be sure you're starting off clean - stop MS and do whatever it
takes to make all the sendmail processes go away.  (But be aware that if you
forcibly kill a sendmail process while it's talking to a remote server, you
may end up with "dead" files in the mailqueue.in if it was an inbound
message or with a slightly corrupt mail spool if it was a message being
delivered to a local account on the system or with a message that never gets
delivered if it was a process delivering an outbound message.)

Once you have everything shut down, run these commands in order and send
back their output:

ps -ef | grep [mM]ail
service MailScanner start
ps -ef | grep [mM]ail
sleep 30
service MailScanner stop
ps -ef | grep [mM]ail
sleep 30
ps -ef | grep [mM]ail
service MailScanner start
ps -ef | grep [mM]ail

--
Trever

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Anderson [mailto:billa at STERLING.NET]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:10 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Stopping MailScanner
> 
> 
> When I do a mailscanner restart, mailscanner fails to restart 
> mailscanner.
> I have found that restart does not work.  The only way to 
> make it work is to
> shutdown mailscanner, shutdown sendmail, and then start 
> mailscanner.  From
> what I am gathering from everyones response, this is not the 
> way it should
> be.  I am currently running MailScanner 4.22-4 and Sendmail 
> 8.11.6-27.72.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Anderson" <billa at STERLING.NET>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Stopping MailScanner
> 
> 
> 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.
> >
>