Bug#211784: Not just nis...
I've also seen this with snmpd in a friend's box (the upgrade stopped
it, it didn't load, and a few hours later he noticed mrtg was
misbehaving). That box is a genuine Pentium MMX 200, so it's no surprise
stopping something takes a bit longer than usual.
I think the mistake is in the rc.d scripts, which don't wait for the
program to really quit before returning from the stop action. Increasing
the delay before restarting is just a kludge, you can still lose the
race.
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Cesar Eduardo Barros
cesarb@nitnet.com.br
cesarb@dcc.ufrj.br
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