Bug#476455: exiwhat of exim4-base requires killall but it does not depend on psmisc package to ensure killall is installed

[Andreas Metzler]

tags 476455 pending
thanks
On 2008-04-18 Marcin Orlowski <carlos at wfmh.org.pl> wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:

>  > The most we're gonna do is patch exiwhat to give a more verbose
>  > message along the lines "exiwhat can only work if the psmisc package
>  > is installed".

> I think that's acceptable compromise. Thanks.

I have commited a patch to svn that makes exiwhat check at runtime
whether killall is available. If it is not ps ax and kill are used.

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4?op=comp&compare%5B%5D=%2Fexim%2Ftrunk@2255&compare%5B%5D=%2Fexim%2Ftrunk@2256

cu andreas

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