[Mimedefang] mimedefang.sock problem

[Xiaoyan Ma]

At 06:08 AM 7/14/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>From: Xiaoyan Ma <xma at haas.berkeley.edu>
>>
>>I finally got mimedefang.sock after stop+start / restart over 20 
>>times.  I understand I am not the only one running into this problem.  I 
>>actually learned this restart trick from the list yesterday.  What was 
>>the cause of this problem?  Anything related to OS (I am running Solaris) 
>>and saw people having same problem with RedHat?   I am just so puzzled 
>>and worried.  I am not sure if this will happen again when we have to 
>>reboot the box.  Any suggestions?
>
>In common with a fair number of other programs, when you run the script to 
>stop MD it doesn't stop immediately, sometimes it takes a second or 
>so.  You need to wait for all MD processes to stop (or wait a couple of 
>seconds) and *then* start it.

Rob:

Thank you very much for your reply.

Sorry I was panicking.  It happened when we were to build fail-over clustering.

Xiaoyan