mailscanner not always exiting

[Jeff A. Earickson]

I took have noticed this (Solaris 9, 4.30.3), but it falls into the
realm of a minor annoyance.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Mariano Absatz wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:13:08 -0300
> From: Mariano Absatz <mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: mailscanner not always exiting
>
> Hi,
>
> We're trying to autmatically handle a bunch of servers running MailScanner
> and I noticed that, sometimes, when I issue a 'service MailScanner stop' even
> when it returns OK, MailScanner doesn't stop.
>
> That is, I know MailScanner takes a while (actually just a few seconds when
> hardware is right) to stop ('cause it sends a SIGHUP to all its children and
> waits for them), but sometimes it doesn't seem to either, receive its own
> SIGTERM, or it doesn't send the SIGHUP to its children...
>
> Anyone else noticed this?
>
> FTR, it's 4.29.7 with ZMailer and SA 2.63 under Fedora Core-1.
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Mariano Absatz
> El Baby
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