mailscanner restart

[Julian Field]

Quoting Matt <hciss at HCIWS.COM>:
> Just wandering, is this a Linux issue or why does "mailscanner restart"
> not
> work?  I always have to kill it to restart it.

Precisely how you need to kill it seems to vary between different flavours of
Linux. I've never yet found a sure-fire way of doing it on all systems.

And in V4 it's even harder as the child processes are all restarted
independently. I think I've going to have to replace the "pid file" option
with a "pid dir" one, and keep a list of all the current pids in that
directory. Currently I use "killall /usr/bin/perl" which isn't exactly what
you might want! :-)

>
> Matt
>
>
> You can check the status of mailscanner:
>
>    /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner
>
> To stop/start or restart mailscanner:
>
>    /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner stop
>    /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner start
>    /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner restart
>
> To kill mailscanner:
>
>    kill -1 `cat /usr/local/MailScanner/var/virus.pid`
>


--
Jules
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk