[Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail Startup Script

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Jeff Grossman wrote:

> I just installed MIMEDefang 2.18 and made the change to the Sendmail startup
> script like this:

>                         daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m
>                         daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -Ac -qp1m

> So, I am now running Sendmail, and a queue control process.  But what do I
> do in the stop part?

Ugly, isn't it?  The sendmail.org people screwed up; they should start
a queue runner from the main process and kill it when the main process
dies, too.  My solution is to do this in the "stop" part:

stop() {
        # Stop daemons.
        echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
        killproc sendmail
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
	# Arg... kill the queue runner, too.
        killall /usr/sbin/sendmail
        return $RETVAL
}

Gross.  And DON'T TRY THIS on a UNIX system.  On some UNIX systems,
killall kills everything.  On Linux, it kills the named process.

Regards,

David.