Rereading config file

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 18 14:48:40 GMT 2002


At 14:47 18/01/2002, you wrote:
>Is there a nice way to get MailScanner to reread its config file,
>eg kill -HUP or something like that?

Afraid not. The fastest way is to use "check_mailscanner" to find its PID,
kill that PID, then run "check_mailscanner" again to re-start it. Can be
quite safely used on a busy production system, nothing will get lost.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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