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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> I just went through a painful upgrade of
an Ubuntu server ...<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Welcome to the club :-}<BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR>>> It seems as if MailScanner can’t tell whether it’s already
running.<BR>>> I have “Restart Every” set to 7200. Every time the time
passes, a new primary process of MailScanner starts.<BR>>> Over the period
of a day, I’ll have a large number of parent processes running.<BR>>>
<BR>>> If this helps at all… the mailscanner script in /etc/init.d uses
start-stop-daemon to start and stop the MailScanner process.<BR>>> It
would start fine, but it wouldn’t stop as it didn’t recognize the MailScanner
name in the process list.<BR>>> I had to modify the script to use the PID
file to stop the processes.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>You basically found out what your problem is/was.<BR><BR>Issue more
thorougly described
at:<BR>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649835#25<BR><BR>So
basically you need to change "$NAME"s to "$PIDFILE" like:</FONT></DIV><FONT
face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR>< start-stop-daemon --start
--quiet --startas $STARTAS --name $NAME --test > /dev/null
\<BR>---<BR>> start-stop-daemon --start
--quiet --startas $STARTAS --pidfile "$PIDFILE" --test > /dev/null
\<BR><BR><BR>< start-stop-daemon --start
--quiet --nicelevel $run_nice --exec $DAEMON --name $NAME -- $DAEMON_ARGS
\<BR>---<BR>> start-stop-daemon --start
--quiet --nicelevel $run_nice --exec $DAEMON --pidfile "$PIDFILE" --
$DAEMON_ARGS \<BR><BR><BR><
start-stop-daemon --stop --retry=TERM/10/TERM/20 --name
$NAME<BR>---<BR>> start-stop-daemon
--stop --quiet --retry=TERM/10/TERM/20 --pidfile
"$PIDFILE"<BR><BR>< start-stop-daemon
--stop --signal 1 --quiet --name
$NAME<BR>---<BR>> start-stop-daemon
--stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile "$PIDFILE"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(with having a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> PIDFILE=`${QUICKPEEK} 'PID file'
${CONFFILE}`</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>line as well at the beginning)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Here is a link to the script I'm using currently without problems in case
you don't want to edit</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://maques.hu/linux/mailscanner">http://maques.hu/linux/mailscanner</A></DIV>
<DIV>There are some extras like possibiliity to ulimit and checking for multiple
installation directories to start the daemon (tgz:opt/deb:bin).</DIV>
<DIV>You might need to edit though...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>G.</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>