Bug 19887 - /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart often doesn't
Summary: /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart often doesn't
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 20696
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-26 22:48 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-11-08 21:43:12 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-26 22:48:41 UTC 
Running /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart tends to leave the sendmail
daemon down.

The redhat rc daemon() function checks to see if any processes with the
daemon's name exist, and if so, will not start the daemon.  For sendmail,
this is a bad idea, as there are often queue jobs still running when the
main daemon exits.

More generally, this behavior of daemon() is questionable.  There are
probably other daemons out there that behave like this.
Comment 1 John Hardin 2000-11-08 21:43:09 UTC 
This problem still exists in 6.2
"sendmail start" should probably wait a bit (15 sec) for queues to complete, and
then start blowing them away.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-13 06:25:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20696 ***
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