Improved init.d script

[Julian Field]

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This isn't caused by the init.d script, it appears that in some 
situations it can take a long time for the MailScanner child process to 
exit. Killing the rogue child causes the script to continue normally.

Ed Bruce wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>   
>> Ed Bruce wrote:
>>     
>>> Julian Field 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
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Works on my Redhat AS 3 (2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp) and 4 (2.6.9-55.ELsmp) MS
>>> servers.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks for all the testing guys, it looks like it works everywhere it's
>> been tried (which is now quite a lot of places). It will be in the next
>> release.
>>
>> Jules
>>
>>     
>
> Well just did a another accidental test and this appears to have failed.
> I made some changes to the MS config and did a restart. This worked
> great, but I then realized I had forgot one change. I quickly made this
> and did another restart before all the child processes had started. The
> MS restart appears to have got stuck on the "Waiting for MailScanner to
> die gracefully.........................." step. I killed the restart
> followed by a a stop and then start to get MS running.
>
>   

Jules

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