Re: Killed wrong proc!

[Chip Seraphine]

OK, thanks, Mark.  I see that now.  I thought it was matching only on arg0, 
but it's just a pattern match against the entire line of 'ps' output...

So what's the canonical workaround?  I'm sure almost everybody has the similar 
problem from time to time, right?

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:30, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 
> You told it to look for lines that contained the string postfix
> 
> M
> 
> On 21 Sep, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> > In cfengine 2.1.10 on Solaris 2., this processes block:
> >             "postfix"
> >                     signal=TERM
> >                     restart "/etc/init.d/postfix restart"
> > 
> > produced these results (from -I):
> > greasy: Signalled process 8142 (postfix) with SIGTERM
> > greasy: Killed: root      8142  0.0  0.2  1644  624 ?        S    Sep17   
0:01 syslogd -m 0 -a
> > /var/spool/postfix/dev/log greasy: Signalled process 5277 (postfix) with 
SIGTERM
> > greasy: Killed: root      5277  0.0  0.4  2884 1088 ?        S    15:12   
0:00
> > /usr/lib/postfix/master greasy: Executing shell command: /etc/init.d/
postfix restart
> > greasy: Restart: Shutting down postfix:                         [FAILED]
> > greasy: Restart: Starting postfix:                              [  OK  ]
> > greasy: (Done with /etc/init.d/postfix restart)
> > 
> > 
> > Egads!  Why was proc 8142 involved  in that?
> 
> 
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