Reloading config

[James Gray]

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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:17 pm, Magnus Morén wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.  Even though I've snipped the rest of the info, the only thing Ian 
think of is that whatever user is running the script either:
1 - doesn't have permission to read the PID file
2 - doesn't have permission to HUP the MailScanner process.
3 - the script is somehow not executing `cat <PIDFILE>`  (`cmd` is a 
Bourne/bash thing; does the script have the right shell in #!/foo/shell ?)

Beyond that - I'm out of ideas at the moment.  What happens if you run a 
"kill -HUP `cat <PIDFILE>`" as root??  Do you get an error message?  Is there 
anything that gives a clue in the mail log etc?

If I think of anything else I'll let you know :-/

Cheers,

James

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