Graceful shutdown and restart of INN

[Russ Allbery]

Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie.com> writes:

> I recall being bitten by this scenario years ago; whereby, if for some
> reason INND dies and you have rc.news and innwatch running, you can
> create a real snafu by trying to bring it back into a sane startup.

rc.news shouldn't be a long-running process.  Do you maybe mean
news.daily?  I would kill off all expire jobs before restarting INN, just
to be on the safe side, although I'm not sure it's strictly necessary.

Other than that, rc.news start should do the right thing, including
forcing a renumber if innd died in an unclean fashion.  You do have to
kill innwatch (and cnfsstat if it's running) or you'll end up starting
another copy of them, although that's fairly harmless.

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