Improved init.d script

[Scott Silva]

Julian Field spake the following on 8/2/2007 10:38 AM:
> Attached are new versions of the RedHat and SuSE /etc/init.d/MailScanner
> scripts.
> The improvement is obvious when you do
>    /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart
> or
>    service MailScanner restart
> 
> It used to just wait for a fixed length of time (30 seconds by default).
> Now it watches to see when the old MailScanner processes have actually
> died, and starts it all back up again as soon as the previous
> MailScanner is dead.
> 
> It is important not to 'kill -9' the MailScanner processes, as they do
> quite a bit of cleanup so they don't leave a mess behind, for example in
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming.
> 
> Please let me know what you think of them, and if they work for you okay.
> 
> Jules
> 
Tried it on 2 of my servers, and it is working great!
I'll do some beating on them tonite after the minions go home.

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MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!