Reloading config

[Magnus [ISO-8859-1] Morén]

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On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 21:39 +1100, James Gray wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:44 pm, Magnus Morén wrote:

> > 'reload')
> >     echo "Reloading MailScanner config"
> >     kill -HUP `cat /opt/MailScanner/var/MailScanner.pid`
> >     ;;

> Where is you PID file in MailScanner.conf?  Mine says:
> PID file = /var/run/MailScanner.pid

# grep PID /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
PID file = /opt/MailScanner/var/MailScanner.pid

Looks good.


> Are you sure `cat /opt/MailScanner/var/MailScanner.pid` isn't catting a 
> non-existent file??  This may or may not generate an error depending on how 
> the script is written... my init scripts only dump errors to syslog unless 
> something catastrophic happens :P

> What does "ps" say?  (Column names inserted manually for Linux)

> Your script should be finding the *FIRST* MailScanner PID (19221 in 
> my case) when catting the PID file.

Even this looks good to me.


# cat /opt/MailScanner/var/MailScanner.pid
13896


# ps -fe | grep 13896   (Last part of output is truncated)

UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD

root 17344 13896 2 12:58:31 ?         0:02 /usr/bin/perl \
   -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
root 17310 13896  3 12:58:21 ?        0:04 /usr/bin/perl \
   -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
root 17494 13896  1 12:59:41 ?        0:02 /usr/bin/perl \
   -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
root 13896     1  0 08:57:18 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl \
   -I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail



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Magnus Morén____________________________________________
Central IT / CITE,   Högskolan i Halmstad,    035-167383
Box 823, 301 18 HALMSTAD, epost: magnus.moren at cite.hh.se
-- 
Magnus Morén____________________________________________
Central IT / CITE,   Högskolan i Halmstad,    035-167383
Box 823, 301 18 HALMSTAD, epost: magnus.moren at cite.hh.se

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