MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable release 4.63.7

[Julian Field]

Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> James Gray wrote:
>> On 02/09/2007, at 1:11 AM, Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>> I have just released the latest stable version 4.63.7.
>>
>> Super! I downloaded the latest beta 24 hours ago...looks like another 
>> download for me :)
>>
>>> The full Change Log is this:
>>>
>>> * New Features and Improvements *
>>> 1 Improved init.d script, so that 'service MailScanner restart' or
>>>  '/etc/init.d/MailScanner restart' runs faster. It pauses for just long
>>>  enough for the old MailScanner to die gracefully, and starts up the 
>>> new one
>>>  as soon as the old one has died. Previously, it just waited for a 
>>> fixed
>>>  length of time which was much longer than needed for most people.
>>
>> I wrote an init script a while ago for slow machines that loops 
>> waiting for MailScanner children and parent to terminate with a 
>> configurable delay loop.  If you're interested:
>> http://files.gray.net.au/MailScanner/mailscanner-slow.sh
>>
>> I just had a look at it and it isn't the best shell script I've ever 
>> written, but in my defence, I wrote it years ago when I was 
>> relatively inexperienced at it.  Still, the logic in it is sound, 
>> although there is no check for infinite loops in the delay loop.  It 
>> wouldn't be hard to implement a counter though and after 'n' delay 
>> loops, do something other than keep waiting (bail with an error, 
>> attempt the SIGKILL the remaining PID's, whatever).
>>
>> Just thought this may be useful rather than an arbitrary delay 
>> period, to actually check to see if there are any MailScanner PID's 
>> still around.
> But that's exactly what my improvement to my init.d script does. It 
> doesn't wait for an arbitrary delay period, that's the point of my 
> improvement. Please take a look at my script, the "stop" code does this:
Sorry, I mean the "restart" code does this:
>
>        $0 stop
>        echo -n 'Waiting for MailScanner to die gracefully '
>        while ( ps ax | grep -q '[M]ailScanner:' )
>        do
>          echo -n .
>          sleep 1
>        done
>        echo ' dead.'
>        sleep 1
>        $0 start
>
> Jules
>

Jules

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