RE: [Clamav-users] bug in clamav-milter PID file handling

2004-09-24 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: There seems to be a problem with clamav-milter's --pidfile option. I retract this. The --pidfile option is fine. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an

Re: [Clamav-users] bug in clamav-milter PID file handling

2004-09-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sep 24, 2004, at 13:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: There seems to be a problem with clamav-milter's --pidfile option. I retract this. The --pidfile option is fine. Line 1408 of clamav-milter.c has fprintf(fd, %d\n, (int)getpid()); which

RE: [Clamav-users] bug in clamav-milter PID file handling

2004-09-24 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Doug Hardie wrote: On Sep 24, 2004, at 13:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: There seems to be a problem with clamav-milter's --pidfile option. I retract this. The --pidfile option is fine. Line 1408 of clamav-milter.c has

Re: [Clamav-users] bug in clamav-milter PID file handling

2004-09-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sep 24, 2004, at 16:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On Sep 24, 2004, at 13:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: There seems to be a problem with clamav-milter's --pidfile option. I retract this. The --pidfile option is fine. Line 1408 of clamav-milter.c has

RE: [Clamav-users] bug in clamav-milter PID file handling

2004-09-24 Thread Alex S Moore
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 18:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but I retract my opinion that this is a problem. kill `cat clamav-milter.pid` wasn't working, and I wrongly blamed this on the newline. It turned out after experiment that kill $PID wasn't working either. But killall clamav-milter

[Clamav-users] bug in clamav-milter PID file handling

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
There seems to be a problem with clamav-milter's --pidfile option. It successfully writes the PID to the file but then it also puts a trailing newline. This makes it unsuitable for the standard kill `cat /the/pidfile` trick. As a workaround this seems to work: kill `head --bytes=-1