Improved init.d script

[Jody Cleveland]

Is this part of 4.62.9-2? Or should I do this after that's finished? (just
getting ready to install 4.62.9-2)

- jody


On 8/2/07 12:38 PM, "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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