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.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

IBM: Inferior But Marketable.

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