editing filename.rules.conf and restarting MS

[Gerry Doris]

> Hi,
>
>  I edited the filename.rules.conf file to filter sobig attatchments and
> killed the pid listed by check_MailScanner then ran check_MailScanner
> again
> to restart it but, the attatchments are still getting through.  How do I
> correctly restart MailScanner(rpm install v 4.21-9)? I also killed the
> MailScanner pid and ran 'service MailScanner start' but that didn't work
> either.
>
>
> these are the rules I added.
>
> deny    ^your_details\.zip?$     Possibly Sobig-E virus
> deny    ^application\.zip?$      Possibly Sobig-E virus
> deny    ^document\.zip?$         Possibly Sobig-E virus
> deny    ^screensaver\.zip?$      Possibly Sobig-E virus
> deny    ^Movie\.zip?$            Possibly Sobig-E virus
>
> thanx,

I normally do a

service MailScanner restart

That seems to work for me.  As a check you can either do a

service MailScanner status

or just look at the maillog to see if MailScanner shut down properly and
then started up again.


Gerry