I've been monkeying around with metalog. Configuring and looking at init scripts. I'm finding that after a few starts and stops the normal /etc/init.d/metalog start/stop doens't work. I just get a message that metalog is already running. Asking for `stop' it reports `metalog not stopped'.
Checking /var/run... I see no pid for metalog ps wwaux|grep metalog doesn't turn up a daemon pid.
I had a similar thing happen with sendmail yesterday and finally rebooted to get it stopped and back on track to where /etc/init.d/sendmail start/stop/restart/status would work.
There must be a way to get metalog lined out without a reboot. killall metalog doesn't do it either. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
