[Mimedefang] local socket unsafe

Adam Lanier adam at krusty.madoff.com
Wed Jul 7 07:57:23 EDT 2004


Matt Smith wrote:
 > I have had similar problems on the systems I have set up, 
particularly when
 > issueing a service sendmail restart command or similar.
 > The easiest way i found to get around the problem was to add `sleep 
5' into
 > the init.d script for mimedefang, in stop_it().
 > This forced a pause after the shutdown, and gave enough time for the sock
 > file to be cleaned up, before the restart occured.  Look at the times in
 > your logfile to work out the needed pause duration.

This is exactly what I did also, seemed to solve the problem.

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Adam Lanier
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC



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