RH init script

[Denis Beauchemin]

Julian Field a écrit :
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> Why not just kill the mspid, and not killproc MailScanner?
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> On 27/2/09 20:05, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
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>> Julian Field a écrit :
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>>> On 27/2/09 15:05, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> 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.
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>>> Jules
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>> Julian,
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>> 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
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>> That way you'll kill all MS children at the same time without killing 
>> other MS processess started by a different instance of MS.
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>> 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...
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>> Thanks!
>>
>> Denis
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> Jules
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Julian,

That would be fine with me, but you wouldn't be killing all children at 
the same time that way.

Denis

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