On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:59:22 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > > > I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim > > stop . It simply gives "!!". More detailed errors on that sure would be > > nice. > > Is there nothing in /var/log? > > > Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the > > init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d > > script to straighten things out. > > > Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine. > > Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before starting, > so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run. > >
Turns out I'm not alone. Sounds like a "duh" fix to me, makes me wonder why it hasn't been fixed. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79743 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
