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Re: Script vs command line behaviour

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On Wednesday 12 October 2016 09:40:57 Mark Fletcher wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:40:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:34:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > > # The systemctl stop for svnserve may not work as I haven't got
> > > around to # making a stop script for it.
> > > # So kill the process the old fashioned way
> > > ps -ef | grep svnserve | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs
> > > kill -9
> >
> > Please consider replacing this with some variant of:
> >
> > pkill svnserve
> >
> > And stop using -9 (SIGKILL).  Forever.  Pretend it never existed.
>
> ...Any thoughts on what is preventing the restart of fetchmail from
> working?
>
> Mark

My best guess is a stale lock file, leftover because you used the brute 
force kill, so it did not exit gracefully, cleaning up after itself.  My 
own scripts restart fetchmail on a nightly basis so fetchmail can't muck 
up an sa-train-bayes run.  It uses "killall fetchmail", then waits 20 
seconds for any mail in the spamd pipes to drain, and when the sa-learn 
bits are completed:

# and restore fetchmail but let the disks synch first
sleep 6
fetchmail -d 180 --fetchmailrc /home/gene/.fetchmailrc

This has not failed in many years.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 14:40 +0200
  Re: Script vs command line behaviour Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-12 14:50 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2016-10-12 15:30 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 15:50 +0200
      Re: Script vs command line behaviour Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-12 16:00 +0200
        Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 16:20 +0200
          Re: Script vs command line behaviour Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-10-12 16:30 +0200
            Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 17:10 +0200
              Re: Script vs command line behaviour Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-12 17:20 +0200
              Re: Script vs command line behaviour Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-10-12 17:20 +0200
                Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 16:50 +0200
                Re: Script vs command line behaviour Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-10-13 17:00 +0200
                Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 01:10 +0200
            Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 01:30 +0200
              Re: Script vs command line behaviour Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-14 02:50 +0200
      Re: Script vs command line behaviour Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-12 16:40 +0200
        Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 17:20 +0200
          Re: Script vs command line behaviour Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2016-10-12 18:00 +0200
            Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 01:20 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> - 2016-10-15 11:50 +0200
      Re: Script vs command line behaviour Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-15 15:50 +0200
  Re: Script vs command line behaviour Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-10-12 23:00 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 01:00 +0200

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