After postfix stop, postscreen remains alone without master supervisor process

2011-01-24 Thread Stefano Mason
Sometimes the "postscreen" process behaviour is: ( After postfix stop, another postscreen is started, look PID number! ) # postconf mail_version mail_version = 2.8.0 # date Mon Jan 24 16:21:45 CET 2011 # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.5 (Final) # ps -fe |grep postscreen postfix 39

Re: After postfix stop, postscreen remains alone without master supervisor process

2011-01-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Stefano Mason: > Sometimes the "postscreen" process behaviour is: > > ( After postfix stop, another postscreen is started, look PID number! ) By design, postscreen finishes ongoing work in the background. Wietse

Re: After postfix stop, postscreen remains alone without master supervisor process

2011-01-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stefano Mason : > Sometimes the "postscreen" process behaviour is: > > ( After postfix stop, another postscreen is started, look PID number! ) Yes, I've seen this once or twice, but assumed it was somehow my fault. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Uni

Re: After postfix stop, postscreen remains alone without master supervisor process

2011-01-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Ralf Hildebrandt: > * Stefano Mason : > > Sometimes the "postscreen" process behaviour is: > > > > ( After postfix stop, another postscreen is started, look PID number! ) > > Yes, I've seen this once or twice, but assumed it was somehow my fault. The postscreen daemon creates a child and finishe

Re: After postfix stop, postscreen remains alone without master supervisor process

2011-01-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Wietse Venema : > The postscreen daemon creates a child and finishes work in the > background. The parent terminates immediately. Meaning it's safe to igore and it will go away eventually. Fine. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Be