[Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail Startup Script

[Rich West]

>
>
>>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.
>

IMHO, for simplicity, simply call killproc twice.  You have two 
processes, and killproc kills just one, so call it once for each 
process.  And the following code will do that.  (note that the start 
portion of the init script starts the queue-runner AFTER sendmail is 
started, so the ordering of the killproc in the snippet below kills them 
in the same order)


  stop)
        # Stop daemons.
        echo -n "Shutting down sendmail: "
        killproc sendmail
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
        killproc sendmail
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail.smmsp
        ;;



-Rich