Force mailscanner to reread and parse rules files

[Julian Field]

That all depends on what your "killall" command does. On IRIX it kills all 
user processes and is only used as part of shutdown.

At 15:05 17/07/2004, you wrote:
>I know it's crude, but how would that method differ from "killall -HUP
>MailScanner"?
>
> > Sigurbjörn Birkir Lárusson wrote:
> >
> >>I'm dynamically generating the mailscanner rules (from SQL) and I'm
> >> wondering if there's a way to make MailScanner reread its rules somehow
> >> (hupping it doesn't seem to have much of an effect).
> >>
> > How are you hupping?
> >
> > The following work for me (notice the "-" before the `cat...):
> >
> >     kill -HUP -`cat /opt/MailScanner/var/MailScanner.pid`
> >
> > or
> >
> >     kill -1 -`cat /opt/MailScanner/var/MailScanner.pid`

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