RH init script

[Julian Field]

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Why not just kill the mspid, and not killproc MailScanner?

On 27/2/09 20:05, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Julian Field a écrit :
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>> On 27/2/09 15:05, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>>> PS: I am trying to configure a server that could (in case of DR) 
>>> play both inbound and outbound roles at the same time.  I will be 
>>> running different sendmail and MS instances.  I think the current 
>>> init script won't play nice with this scheme because it "killproc 
>>> MailScanner" without regards about which instance it might belong 
>>> to. Why don't you use $MSPID instead?
>> Err... because I started by copying someone else's init.d script! I 
>> ideally want to send the TERM to the child processes as well, though, 
>> so they all get told to start dying.
>>
>> Jules
>
> Julian,
>
> In the RH init script, could you replace all "killproc MailScanner 
> -15" by:
>        if [[ -s $MSPID ]]; then
>          kill -15 $(ps -ef|grep $(cat /var/run/MailScanner.pid)|awk 
> '/MailScanner:/{print $2}')
>        else
>          killproc MailScanner -15
>        fi
>
> That way you'll kill all MS children at the same time without killing 
> other MS processess started by a different instance of MS.
>
> There are so many things I have to modify in so many different files 
> to be able to run many MS instances simultaneously on the same machine 
> that I may as well rewrite the init.d script altogether...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Denis
>

Jules

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