[Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang
Ben Kamen
bkamen at benjammin.net
Thu Apr 21 11:36:02 EDT 2005
David F. Skoll wrote:
>
> Oops, sorry! I adapted it from something we use with CanIt, and
> forgot that the mimedefang init script doesn't have a status.
>
> Anyway, if you know shell programming, you should be able to detect if
> mimedefang is running by checking the return status of:
>
> kill -0 `cat /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.pid`
>
> and similarly for the multiplexor.
>
> I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader. :-)
>
This is why I had you add the "foreground" flag to progs as AIX's resource
controller will do exactly all that... so no user "tracking" is required.. just
startsrc -s mimedefang and stopsrc -s mimedefang.
You all just need to switch to AIX... That would solve all your problems!
(har har)
-Ben
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