editing filename.rules.conf and restarting MS

[Denis Beauchemin]

No need to do a full restart for this as a simple reload (service
MailScanner reload) will do just fine and won't stop/restart sendmail.

Denis
Le ven 27/06/2003 à 13:46, Gerry Doris a écrit :
> > 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
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