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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:27:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906162710.7b66773c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126015162.25200.1.camel@localhost>

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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.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

IBM: Inferior But Marketable.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-06 13:59 [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d, fire-eyes
2005-09-06 15:27 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-09-06 16:18   ` fire-eyes
2005-09-06 16:26   ` fire-eyes

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