I've never had a problem with stop, restart otoh often fails for me. Note that many of these scripts use killproc, with full path to executable. If, for instance, your mysqld isn't in /usr/sbin (suse default) then it won't be found by killproc, and killproc will therefore assume it has been successfully killed, hence the 'done' HTH Anders

Howdy,

For some weird reason I cannot stop any services such as mysql or http with /etc/rc.d/init.d/<servicename> stop. If I do it's says "done" but then if you do ps -ef |grep <servicename> it's still running.

When I first found it we had a really custom install and I thought maybe I'd messed something up. I just finished reinstalling from scratch, and we have the same problem!

One thing that might be causing the problem: our perl coder had to have perl 5.6. Is there eny chance that those init scripts use perl, and the new version is messing it up? I have never had trouble with init scripts before.

If perl isn't used can anyone think of any other reason they aren't working? Note that I am doing this as root, so perms shouldn't be a problem.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator

Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com