[Mimedefang] mimedefang-multiplexor name too long

Rich West Rich.West at divatv.com
Mon Feb 18 20:50:18 EST 2002


That's a Solaris limitation with the pkill script.  :)

Maybe if the simple version of mimedefang goes away, perhaps the 
mimedefang-multiplexor will get renamed "mimedefang".

Just a thought..

-Rich


Nicholas Brealey wrote:

>It is probably too late to change the name now but I had
>a problem with the mimedefang-multiplexor name being
>too long.
>
>In my init script on Solaris I was using the
>following commands to stop mimedefang:
>
>/usr/bin/pkill -x -u defang mimedefang
>/usr/bin/pkill -x -u defang mimedefang-multiplexor
>
>The problem was that pkill only sees the first 15 characters
>of process name and I was leaving old copies of the
>multiplexor running every time I stopped and started mimedefang.
>This feature of the Solaris pkill command is documented in
>the man page.
>
>I now use the following:
>
>/usr/bin/pkill -x -u defang mimedefang
>/usr/bin/pkill -x -u defang mimedefang-mult
>
>Thanks for MIMEDefang!
>
>Regards
>
>Nick
>





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