[Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail Startup Script

[Stephane Lentz]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 03:53:24PM -0400, Rich West wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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
> ...
> 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
>        ;;
> 

The latest sendmail 8.12.5 RedHat RPM in RawHide provides some good
init script.

In the submit.mc they added :
define(`confPID_FILE', `/var/run/sm-client.pid')dnl

In the stop) init part they put :
stop() {
        # Stop daemons.
        echo -n  "Shutting down %s: " "$prog"
        killproc sendmail
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
        if test -f /var/run/sm-client.pid ; then
                echo -n  "Shutting down sm-client: "
                killproc sm-client
                RETVAL=$?
                echo
                [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/run/sm-client.pid
                [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sm-client
        fi
        return $RETVAL
}

The start part includes :
daemon --check sm-client /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac \                                                                                            
                                $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)        

SL/
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