[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#511688: Bug#511688: "/etc/init.d/clamav-milter stop" doesn't stop the clamav-milter daemon

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Bruno Tréguier said:
> The script "/etc/init.d/clamav-milter" doesn't do a proper job when
> trying to stop the daemon. This is due to the fact that the file
> containing the PID (/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.pid) in fact holds the
> process group ID, which is negative, and line 88 of the script, which is
> supposed to kill the daemon, is as follows:
> 
>     kill -15 -"$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
> 
> The minus sign before "$PID" shouldn't be there, as it is already
> included in the PID contained in the /var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.pid
> file. That line should read:
> 
>     kill -15 "$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
> 
> Hope that helps, and please be indulgent about the rather free form of 
> my patch (it's only 1 line anyway ;-) ).

If you look at how PID is defined, the leading '-' is stripped off
before it gets to that point (or should be).  Can you provide the output
of 
sh -x /etc/init.d/clamav-milter stop

on a run that fails to stop it?

Cheers,
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