Re: [Clamav-users] Re: What is -ve process group?

2005-01-31 Thread imacat
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:35:47 -0500 Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The debian init script has been sending the kill signal to the whole process group for some time, and now it checks if the pid is negative first. If htere is a problem with the package supplied init script, let me know,

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: What is -ve process group?

2005-01-31 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 at 22:50:29 +0800, imacat wrote: Than you for your hint, though I cannot access http://people.debian.org/~sgran/debian now. (people.debian.org and packages.debian.org are down?) Yes. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/01/msg00013.html Though the

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: What is -ve process group?

2005-01-31 Thread Stephen Gran
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:50:29PM +0800, imacat said: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:35:47 -0500 Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The debian init script has been sending the kill signal to the whole process group for some time, and now it checks if the pid is negative first. If htere is a

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: What is -ve process group?

2005-01-31 Thread imacat
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:41:43 -0500 Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that when you kill `cat $pidfile`, you don't end up signalling the thread that is listening for signal events, and it has to be communicated over to that thread by the thread that wrote the pid file. This

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: What is -ve process group?

2005-01-30 Thread imacat
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:01:32 -0600 Ren?Berber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: imacat wrote: It's an option (*not* available in all Unixes or Unix like environments) to send the signal to all threads in the process group. Thank you. I somehow got it now. The manpage on my Debian machine does

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: What is -ve process group?

2005-01-30 Thread Stephen Gran
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:14:29AM +0800, imacat said: This negative PID won't work for kvm_getprocs(). What is suggested here? Stop using the PID file now? Stop using start-stop-daemon? Modify the source, recompile and make my own copy of start-stop-daemon so that it send a positive