[Mimedefang] Re: Mimedefang daemons won't stop

[Michael Sims]

Quoting Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk>:

> OK, so I copied redhat/mimedefang-init to /etc/rc.d/init.d/mimedefang
> and did a start then stop of the Mimedefang daemons.  An error is returned:
[snip]
> This is the killproc function in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
> returning an error.
> 
> The usual 3 processes are left behind:
[snip]

I'm stumped.  Maybe David or someone else on the list has an idea.  You could 
throw some debug lines inside /etc/rc.d/init.d/mimedefang 
or /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions to see what is going on.  killproc() uses a 
function called pidofproc(), perhaps it is not able to get the pid of 
mimedefang-multiplexor for some reason...?

This is a bit of voodoo, but often when I am in situations like yours I find it 
helpful to completely remove everything related to the software I'm having 
problems with and start with a fresh installation.  If you haven't already 
tried that you might want to consider it.

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