ms-cron hourly cron job

[Mark Sapiro]

On 10/27/2016 10:23 AM, Wolfgang Baudler wrote:
> 
> Yes, looks like it hourly restarts. Still, why should it print 2 empty
> lines when it restarts?
> 
> Will this restart problem be fixed in a future minor release?


The real question is not why it prints 2 empty lines. (I think they must
come from the command to start MailScanner.)

The real question is why is ms-check not finding the
/var/run/MailScanner.pid file or not finding the PID therein if
MailScanner is actually running? Or if MailScanner is not actually
running, why not?

Michael Young has a suggested solution at
<http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2016-October/103980.html>.
Either the sleep following the kill as he suggests or a loop to wait
until all the processes are gone as in the attached diff might be good.

Also, there is a problem with the existing code, also fixed in this diff.

This may be just a workaround that helps but doesn't address the real
question.

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San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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