Solaris 10 init.d startup failing

[Martin Hepworth]

Randy Fishel wrote:
> 
> On Aug 24, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:49:46 +0100
>>> From: Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com>
>>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> Subject: Re: Solaris 10 init.d startup failing
>>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>>>> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:14 +0100
>>>>> From: Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com>
>>>>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Solaris 10 init.d startup failing
>>>>> Ray Gardener wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I had cause to reboot a Sunblade server running Exim and 
>>>>>> MailScanner version 4.53.8 and noticed a error. The mailscanner 
>>>>>> program is started by invoking MailScanner from the exim startup 
>>>>>> script in /etc/init.d. [I know this is a legacy method for Solaris 
>>>>>> 10 but do this to maintain consistency with other mailhubs based 
>>>>>> on Solaris 9]. On boot-up mainscannner instances were started and 
>>>>>> the startup log line was present in /var/log/maillog but the 
>>>>>> instances of mailscanner ate memory very quickly and didn't 
>>>>>> process mail. Pkilling the mailscanner instances and stopping and 
>>>>>> starting the init.d script resulted in a working system processing 
>>>>>> mail.
>>>>>> Has anyone else seen this on Solaris 10 and if so is there a 
>>>>>> workaround?
>>>>>> Incientally I later created a smf mailscanner service and tried to 
>>>>>> use that to start mailscanner but this also ate memory and didn't 
>>>>>> process mail.
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________________________ 
>>>>>> Ray Gardener,
>>>>>> IT Services, LITS,
>>>>>> Sheffield Hallam University,
>>>>>> Howard Street,
>>>>>> Sheffield,
>>>>>> UK
>>>>>> S1 1WB
>>>>>> Telephone: +44 114 225 4926
>>>>>> Fax: +44 114 225 3840
>>>>>> Mobile: +44 07788190005
>>>>>> Email: R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk
>>>>> Ray
>>>>> only problem like this is when using MS in combination with MailWatch.
>>>>> Problem can be that mysql isn't fully operational by the time MS 
>>>>> starts up...so the first connection hangs.
>>>>> I solved this by putting a wait 30 at the start() function to make 
>>>>> sure mysql is up and accepting connections before we start MS.
>>>> Martin,
>>>> Can you post a diff of your change to the list so I can try it here?
>>>> I don't use MailWatch or sql, so maybe a smaller wait time would solve
>>>> my issue.  Thanks.
>>>> Jeff Earickson
>>>> Colby College
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> just added a sleep 30 at the top of the start) case statement in the 
>>> rc.d script...
>>
>> Nope, didn't work for me.  I turned on the "-x" option in my init.d
>> script, the check_mailscanner script, watched it as I ran things by
>> hand.  The loop-up is somewhere after the bin/MailScanner perl code
>> is launched.  FWIW, the "stop" option in my init.d script does not
>> work either.  The only way I can get things stopped is via
>> "pkill -9 MailScanner".  The mystery continues.
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>> --
> 
>   I just created a manifest and have MailScanner run as a service and 
> have had no problems starting _or_ stopping it.  By setting all the 
> correct dependancies, there should be no reason for waiting.  My 
> manifest replaces the Solaris smtp service, and starts sendmail as well, 
> but there is no reason that there couldn't be a manifest for MailScanner 
> that depends on sendmail or any other MTA.  I could easily generate a 
> MailScanner manifest and test it standalone if there is value.
> 
> rf
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Randy

How about posting that to the list, or (even better) drop in to the wiki.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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