On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 20:51, Mike Loiterman wrote: > But the problem I'm encountering is that the process is called > /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/spamd. The killall command is not > accepting any of the derivatives of that line I give it. For example, > killall spamd, killall /usr/local/sbin/spamd, and killall /usr/bin/perl > /usr/local/sbin/spamd all won't work...it says it can't find any > matching processes. I'v tried many different combinations with no luck. > This shouldn't be that hard I don't know why I'm having such difficulty.
Killall tends to work best with machine-native programs. Since spamd is a Perl script, it cannot be killalled (well, technically yes you could but you'd have to do a killall perl which may not be necessarily what you want to do, depending on what your machine does). You basically have to know the pid of the Perl process running the script and kill THAT process. To do so,as one person has already suggested, the best thing to do would be to add some code to spamd (or in my case, spamproxyd) to write a pid file in somewhere like /var/run so then you have easy access to send the parent Perl interpreter process the desired signal. --Ian. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
