[gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

[gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

[fire-eyes]

I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim
stop . It simply gives "!!". More detailed errors on that sure would be
nice.

Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the
init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d
script to straighten things out.

Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine.

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Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:59:22 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:

> I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim
> stop . It simply gives "!!". More detailed errors on that sure would be
> nice.

Is there nothing in /var/log?
 
> Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the
> init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d
> script to straighten things out.

> Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine.

Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before starting,
so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run.


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Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

[fire-eyes]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine.
> 
> Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before
> starting,
> so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run.


Thanks for the reply.

/var/run is 1777 (it was before), yet it still never
creates /var/run/exim.pid .

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Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

[fire-eyes]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:59:22 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
> 
> > I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim
> > stop . It simply gives "!!". More detailed errors on that sure would be
> > nice.
> 
> Is there nothing in /var/log?
>  
> > Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the
> > init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d
> > script to straighten things out.
> 
> > Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine.
> 
> Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before starting,
> so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run.
> 
> 

Turns out I'm not alone. Sounds like a "duh" fix to me, makes me wonder
why it hasn't been fixed.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79743

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