Re: [AMaViS-user] Waiting for the process XXXXX to terminate

Sven,

> I'm currently getting the message "Waiting for the process
> XXXXX to terminate" upon issueing an 'amavisd stop'
> command. Unfortunately, it waits forever until it gets
> kill -9'ed.
>
> What changed? The libc in the amavis chroot got exchanged
> (while amavis was running), ...

> Mark, can you add a 30 (or 300) second timeout that will
> do a hard kill and bailout in that for(;;) loop?

Ok, can't hurt to add a bigger hammer to the loop.
I'll add the following to 2.3.3, thanks for the suggestion:

--- amavisd.orig Wed Jun 29 12:26:11 2005
+++ amavisd Wed Aug 3 16:23:26 2005
@@ -8791,7 +8791,14 @@
kill('TERM',$amavisd_pid) or die "Can't SIGTERM amavisd[$amavisd_pid]: $!";
- my($delay) = 1; # seconds
- for (;;) {
- sleep($delay); $delay = 5;
+ my($waited) = 0; my($sigkill_sent) = 0; my($delay) = 1; # seconds
+ for (;;) { # wait for the old running daemon to go away
+ sleep($delay); $waited += $delay; $delay = 5;
last if !kill(0,$amavisd_pid); # is the old daemon still there?
- print STDERR "Waiting for the process $amavisd_pid to terminate\n";
+ if ($waited < 60 || $sigkill_sent) {
+ print STDERR "Waiting for the process $amavisd_pid to terminate\n";
+ } else { # use stronger hammer
+ print STDERR "Sending SIGKILL to amavisd[$amavisd_pid]\n";
+ kill('KILL',$amavisd_pid)
+ or warn "Can't SIGKILL amavisd[$amavisd_pid]: $!";
+ $sigkill_sent = 1;
+ }
}

Mark


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