rules files

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Oct 30 20:25:36 GMT 2002


To summarise, you can
         restart it
         reload it (kill -HUP all the MailScanner processes)
         Wait for the next 4-hour restart

At 20:11 30/10/2002, you wrote:
>Yes, or you can use eg   /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner reload    to just
>reload the configuration.
>
>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
>On 30/10/2002 at 6:36 PM Richard Sidlin wrote:
>
> >Or it restarts itself after 4 hours?
> >
> >Richard
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> >> Behalf Of Mike Kercher
> >> Sent: 30 October 2002 18:20
> >> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >> Subject: Re: rules files
> >>
> >>
> >> Always have to restart the process(es)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> >> Behalf Of Gavin Nelmes-Crocker
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:14 PM
> >> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >> Subject: rules files
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Are the rules files loaded in when you start mailscanner or are they
> >> applied as it goes along.  i.e. if you were to create a rules file on
> >> which domains get scanned that are on the server would you have to
> >> restart Mailscanner each time you rebuilt that file?  I suspect the
> >> latter can anyone confirm.
> >>
> >> Gavin
> >>

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