Bug#297607: Long pause when exim daemon is being stopped (was: Re: exim4 prone to break d-i, bug #297607)

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 08:31:21PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Can you see if the pid in /var/run/exim4/exim.pid is really the pid of
> the running process? Possibly the pidfile gets desynced with the
> daemon and s-s-d tries to kill a non-existing daemon?

Additionally, try putting a different value as --retry parameter in
the init script to find out whether it is s-s-d's timeout we are
dealing with.

Greetings
Marc

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