MailScanner init script on Fedora

Mark Nienberg gmane at tippingmar.com
Tue Jul 24 00:58:48 IST 2007


Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Mark Nienberg wrote:
> 
>> Usage: service MailScanner 
>> {start|stop|status|restart|reload|startin|startout|stopms}
>>
>> Usually when I want to upgrade MailScanner or SpamAssassin or ClamAV I do
>>
>> service MailScanner stopms
>>
>> which stops MailScanner but leaves the two sendmail processes 
>> running.  After my upgrade, how do I start MailScanner again, without 
>> affecting the sendmail processes?
> 
> Have you tried `service MailScanner start`? If that does not do the 
> trick you can restartso you only have a minimal outage.

Tried that.  It starts up more instances of sendmail, which are then hard to stop. 
Leaving some zombies.
Mark



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