[Mimedefang] Re: Mimedefang daemons won't stop

Michael Sims michaels at mail3.crye-leike.com
Wed Mar 26 09:31:02 EST 2003


Quoting "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Michael Sims wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> The problem may be that Red Hat's killproc() function expects to find
> a pid file in /var/run; MIMEDefang keeps its pid files in
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang.

Red Hat's killproc() will fall back to /sbin/pidof if it can't find the pid 
file in /var/run.  On my system at least, '/sbin/pidof mimedefang-multiplexor' 
does return the proper PID.  Of course, I'm running Red Hat 7.2, perhaps 
something has changed between 7.2 and 8.0 (which I believe the OP is running) 
that causes killproc() or /sbin/pidof not to work properly with MIMEDefang...



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