On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been monkeying around with metalog. Configuring and looking at > init scripts. I'm finding that after a few starts and stops the normal > /etc/init.d/metalog start/stop doens't work. I just get a message that > metalog is already running. Asking for `stop' it reports `metalog not > stopped'. > > Checking /var/run... I see no pid for metalog > ps wwaux|grep metalog doesn't turn up a daemon pid. > > I had a similar thing happen with sendmail yesterday and finally > rebooted to get it stopped and back on track to where > /etc/init.d/sendmail start/stop/restart/status would work. > > There must be a way to get metalog lined out without a reboot. > killall metalog doesn't do it either.
With init scripts, you can often check status of a service using "status" instead of start. You can also say "zap" to mark a service as stopped, i.e.: /etc/init.d/metalog zap -- -- [email protected] mailing list
