editing filename.rules.conf and restarting MS

[Julian Field]

The key to remember if you kill MailScanner at all (pretty much anything 
except a "reload") is that MailScanner can take several seconds to die. So 
if you kill it and then instantly re-run it, it won't restart properly.
The reason it takes some time is that it tries to clear up nicely and not 
leave a mess of temporary files lying around your system.

At 18:53 27/06/2003, you wrote:
>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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