[Mimedefang] /etc/init.d/mimedefang

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:39 PM -0500 Josh Kelley 
<joshkel at gmail.com> wrote:

> The /etc/init.d/mimedefang script checks for
> /var/lock/subsys/mimedefang before trying to start or stop MIMEDefang.
>  This is apparently not the approach that other /etc/init.d scripts
> take, and it means that if MIMEDefang crashes for whatever reason,
> /var/lock/subsys/mimedefang has to be manually removed before it can
> be restarted.

The logic looks quite similar to the sendmail initscript in Fedora. The 
lock is removed when the stop command is issued to the script.