From: Peter H. Lemieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > # Check for amavis termination > > while [[ ! -z "${PIDS}" ]]; do > > sleep 1 > > PIDS=$( /sbin/pidof "${AMV_NM}" ) > > done > > In cases like this I usually just put the "sleep" command in the init > script like this: > > ... > > case "$1" in > ... > > restart|reload) > stop > sleep 5 <===== > start > RETVAL=$? > ;; > > ... > > I'm not a gentoo user, though, so YMMV. I'm using RedHat/CentOS. Still > I'd bet the init scripts aren't that different.
The init script fails because it uses something like your way: a single sleep 5 :) The guy who made the script did simply test shutting and restarting the amavis/spamd daemon up and down in its own test environment, which basicly is low mail load or even no mail at all. After a while amavis is doing it's dirty job, I noticed it needs a lot of time to shut down. It takes to me something around 10 secs in the average and sometimes it takes even more. So, a 'sleep 5' simply wouldn't fit. I don't know why (and I even don't care to know), but the script I'm using introduces a delay of at most 1 more sec than the strictly needed in restarting amavis and it never failed to me. Giampaolo > > Peter
