On Sun, 24 May 2009 11:10:04 +0200 Jarry <[email protected]> wrote: > # /etc/init.d/MailScanner stop > * Stopping MailScanner... > * MailScanner: caught SIGTERM, aborting
Looks like there's a line in "stop" section that kills the script itself. Try looking for a lines like these: pkill MailScanner killall MailScanner start-stop-daemon --stop --name MailScanner Sure, they might be killing the app as well (if the process has MailScanner in it's name), but there should be full path or pid-based line instead, so the initscript will exit cleanly. > # /etc/init.d/MailScanner start > * WARNING: MailScanner has already been started Following command should "wipe" initscript memory: /etc/init.d/MailScanner zap ...so it'll think MailScanner wasn't even started, but that should be used as a workaround rather than a solution since it leaves init-system in different state than it thinks it is. Direct effect is that it won't execute "stop" action on shutdown since it won't know the script even started. > Actually, MailScanner stops, but sendmail which has been > started by MailScanner init script is still there running: > > # ps -e | grep sendmail > 18676 ? 00:00:00 sendmail > 18679 ? 00:00:00 sendmail Could be because of aforementioned script "self-destruction". If sendmail really started by the same script, not as a dependency, that is. > Even whenn I killall sendmail, I still get the above mentioned > warning, and can not start MailScanner. And that is a problem, > because MailScanner is restarted every hour (to prevent eating > all resources). I checked /var/run and /var/lock, there is > no trace of MailScanner or sendmail running, yet I can not > re-start Mailscanner. How can I fix this problem? Try using "start-stop-daemon -m/-p/--exec" to start and stop binaries, instead of relying on process names (which can be easily changed, btw) and try to use app-created pidfiles, if the launched app has this capability, since it should know better which of it's processes should receive stop signal. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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