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RE: [milter-greylist] crash on db dump (FIX, MAYBE)

2007-09-05 by attila.bruncsak@itu.int

> I have a feature suggestion too.  It would be nice if one could send
> a "kill" signal to milter-greylist (like HUP or SIGUSR1) to have the
> process dump the greylist.db file.  Then the startup/shutdown script
> could be modified so that the db file was dumped right before 
> milter-greylist was shut down, eg:
> 
>    stop)
>          # Stop daemons.
>          echo "Dump greylist.db and shut down milter-greylist: ... \c"
>  		/usr/bin/pkill -HUP milter greylist
>          /usr/bin/pkill milter-greylist
>          echo "done."
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
> 

As far as I know the dump always happens now on exit of milter-greylist
(HUP and TERM signals), at least with the recent beta version.

Bests,
Attila

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