On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:37:48PM +1000, Robert S said: > I have installed clamav-milter on two debian boxes from deb > http://people.debian.org/~sgran/debian woody main. > > Every time I try to stop it, it hangs for about 30 seconds then spews out > the following message: > > Stopping Sendmail milter plugin for ClamAV: start-stop-daemon: warning: > failed to kill XXXX: No such process > > (XXXX = four digits) > > I tried rewriting the init script using a simple "killall" but its not very > elegant and I'd sooner not hack around with these things. > > I haven't found this on google groups. Any quick workarounds? I suspect > its not very important, but it slows things down a lot on rebooting etc.
The init script uses 'retry' for 30 seconds to kill the processes. If they don't die on the first signal, they get signalled again, and so on until they actually do die. This had to be done because I had seen several heavily loaded systems where the milter processes wouldn't actually die. The error message is obnoxious, but so far harmless. Do you actually see any milter processes left after the init script exits? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Mater artium necessitas. [Necessity is | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the mother of invention]. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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