Re: amavisd-new start/stop

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:14:19PM +0100, Robin Elfrink wrote:
> On a (just yesterday installed) FreeBSD 5.4 server I get (the binary is
> /usr/sbin/amavisd):

I don't think this is relevant, since we use the ps from procps (gnu/linux
utils).

> On my Debian GNU/kFreeBSD box I get (the binary is /usr/sbin/amavisd-new):
> 
> amavis   69243  0.0  0.0  26812     0 ?        S    Mar09   0:00
> /usr/bin/perl -T /usr/sbin/amavisd-new start
> 
> On a up-to-date Ubuntu box I get (the binary is /usr/sbin/amavisd-new):
> 
> amavis   12989  0.0  1.8  17864 14732 ?        Ss   14:07   0:00 amavisd
> (master)

Interesting.  What happens if you run it manualy?  I can't reproduce this
difference with other perl programs (on gnu/linux, "/usr/bin/perl" is always
part of the exec command).

> The amavisd-new binary on Ubuntu seems to tell the system that it's
> process name is 'amavisd <something>'. I assume the kFreeBSD package is
> mostly the same as Ubuntu's, so amavisd-new on kFreeBSD somehow fails to
>  tell the kernel it's process name, or the kernel does not listen.
> 
> Is my logic going in the right direction?
> 
> I remember some time ago having done some programming in C and calling a
> function to set the process name. But this stuff is in perl so there's
> probably a perl function for it, which fails.
> 
> Still going in the right direction?

Sounds like it.

-- 
Robert Millan