[Mimedefang] Mimedefang daemons won't stop

[Michael Sims]

I had this same problem when I first installed MIMEDefang 2.30.  I used the
init script that was in the 2.30 src tarball in the file
examples/init-script, and I would have the same problem you describe with 3
processes always left over that had to be killed manually.

When I upgraded to MIMEDefang 2.31, I replaced the init script with the one
that is in redhat/mimedefang-init instead of examples/init-script.  When I
did this, it fixed the problem with the left-over processes.  I didn't have
the time to bother to look into it and see what was wrong with the initial
script.  Since the new script was working I didn't worry too much about it.
:)

Hopefully this will help you...

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-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com]On Behalf Of Ole Holm
Nielsen
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:00 AM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: [Mimedefang] Mimedefang daemons won't stop


We're running Mimedefang 2.31 on a RedHat Linux 8.0 server, and we
have a problem which may or may not be specific to RedHat:

When I start Mimedefang using the supplied init-script the following
processes are started:

defang   20101  0.0  0.1  1612  720 ?        S    09:50   0:00
[mimedefang-mult]
defang   20103 13.2  2.7 18368 13876 ?       S    09:50   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -w
/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
defang   20114  0.0  0.1  4000  804 ?        S    09:50   0:00 [mimedefang]
defang   20115  0.0  0.1  4000  804 ?        S    09:50   0:00 [mimedefang]
defang   20116  0.0  0.1  4000  804 ?        S    09:50   0:00 [mimedefang]
defang   20117 32.5  2.7 18372 13880 ?       S    09:50   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -w
/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server

When I want to stop the Mimedefang daemons using the init-script,
    /etc/rc.d/init.d/mimedefang stop
the following processes unfortunately remain:

defang   20114  0.0  0.1  4000  804 ?        S    09:50   0:00 [mimedefang]
defang   20115  0.0  0.1  4000  804 ?        S    09:50   0:00 [mimedefang]
defang   20116  0.0  0.1  4000  804 ?        S    09:50   0:00 [mimedefang]

I can't figure out why these processes weren't stopped by the
init-script, and it seems that I must kill these processes by hand.

Question:  Is there a fix the the init-script which will reliably
stop the Mimedefang daemons ?

I need to be able to control reliably the Sendmail and Mimedefang daemons
before I feel comfortable about deploying this new mail-server, so your
help will be much appreciated.

Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics
Technical University of Denmark

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