[Mimedefang] restarting mimedefang

[John Barton]

What version of MIMEDefang are you using? I had a similar problem but it
has disappeared now that I have upgraded to the latest release.
-John

> When I start mimedefang on my Redhat 6.2 system with the init script for
> redhat the following processes are started:
>
> mimedefang.pl 2
> mimedefang 3
> mimedefang-multiplexor 1
>
> However when I stop mimedefang with the init script the 3 mimedefang
> processes don't get killed. And after mimedefang is started again 3 more
> mimedefang processes are started, so a total of 6 mimedefang processes
> are running. And 9 after a second restart and so on. This morning when
> playing with my config and after a few restarts this caused mimedefang
> to return a timeout when running filter on almost any e-mail, which
> pretty much renders my mailserver useless.
>
> I then stopped mimedefang, killed the mimedefang processes manualy and
> started mimedefang again and everything worked as usual.
>
> But I keep wondering why aren't these processes killed? Shouldn't I kill
> them and wait a certain time for them to end for example?