Improved init.d script

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Aug 2 22:00:21 IST 2007


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After that's finished. It's not part of 4.62.

Jody Cleveland wrote:
> 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
>>     
>
>   

Jules

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