Restarting the MailScanner process.

[Kris Zabriskie]

I have always killed all the processes (kill -9), and then used
check_mailscanner to kick it back off again.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Mc Donald" <wmcdonald at ORCTEL.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:09 AM
Subject: Restarting the MailScanner process.


> Guys,
>
> hopefully a quickie here. I've just modified my MailScanner.conf to look
at a rule to allow HTML <form> tags FromOrTo just one specific address.
>
> We're running MailScanner-4.22-4 from the tarball distribution and I just
wanted to know what's the quickest, safest way to restart to reread that
config? Can I just kill -1 the PPID? Or do I kill the process and its
children then run check_mailscanner again?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will.
>
>