Restart for change of rules

Chris W. Parker cparker at SWATGEAR.COM
Fri Jun 13 17:23:23 IST 2003


mikea <mailto:mikea at MIKEA.ATH.CX> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:07:51AM -0500, Max Kipness wrote:
> > I believe the answer is yes, but I just wanted to check.
> > 
> > Is it necessary to restart the MailScanner (which restarts
> > Sendmail) for every config change, addition to rules, etc?
> 
> And in particular is it necessary to restart MS to pick up changes to
> the whitelist?

Whitelist no because it checks it each time it processes a mail. But for configuration changes yes.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.


Chris.




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