Re: [gentoo-user] MailScanner: caught SIGTERM, aborting

[Jarry]

Mike Kazantsev 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

The /etc/init.d/MailScanner script looks so:
----------------------------------
#!/sbin/runscript
opts="${opts} reload"
depend() {
         need net mta
         use logger dns }

start() {
         ebegin "Starting MailScanner"
         /usr/sbin/check_MailScanner >/dev/null
         RETVAL=$?
         [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner
         [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off
         eend ${RETVAL}
}

stop() {
         ebegin "Stopping MailScanner"
         killall -15 MailScanner
         RETVAL=$?
         [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner
         [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off
         eend ${RETVAL}
}
# restart () {} and reload () {} removed
----------------------------------

> 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

Yes, this works. But as you said, it is just workaround. Not very
clean solution...

>> 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.

Don't know exactly how sendmail is started, but according to
MailScanner install messages, I had to remove it from default
runlevel. MailScanner itself takes care of starting sendmail...

Jarry

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