Bug 62791 – exim: use pidfile to kill process

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description stan 2004-09-04 01:28:38 UTC]

In exim.rc6 the process is stopped with --exec /usr/sbin/exim, so if you just upgraded exim the executable in memory and on disk will not match and exim will not be stopped.
Can the pidfile be used for stopping exim (--pidfile /var/run/exim.pid) as this would (afaik) be the preferred method to find the exim process and also allow it to work across upgrades.

[Comment 1 stan 2004-09-04 02:29:27 UTC]

also relates to (resolved) bug 1147

[Comment 2 stan 2004-09-04 03:15:24 UTC]

from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256790:
"Solutions:

* Stop the daemon in the prerm, before the executable file is updated
* Run s-s-d with --stop --pidfile (+ optionally --name) (but not --exec)"

so "start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim.pid --name exim" could possibly be used or /etc/init.d/exim stop added to pkg_preinst in the ebuild

[Comment 3 Colin Morey (RETIRED) 2005-01-08 07:35:07 UTC]

Should be fixed with all new emerges, (once exim 4.43-r2 hits the tree)

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-07-18 03:10:23 UTC]

Mass re-assign, maintainer to whom this bug was assigned seems inactive. 

[Comment 5 Colin Morey (RETIRED) 2005-07-18 03:41:12 UTC]

I'm not inactive

[Comment 6 Colin Morey (RETIRED) 2005-10-08 02:07:43 UTC]

closing. (exim-4.52 going stable today.)