Restart Every Setting Question

[Stephen Swaney]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Derek Buttineau
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:54 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Restart Every Setting Question
>
> Good Day,
>
> This may be a somewhat simple question, and I'm sorry if it's already
> been covered, I did a quick look through the documentation and archives
> and couldn't find anything that answered my question.
>
> My Question really is whether there's any information regarding a 4 hour
> restart time vs something much much shorter, along the lines of a 5-15
> minute restart time.  I believe there would be performance issues, but
> am not completely sure.
>
> The situation is, in our installation per domain/per user configurations
> for scanning/whitelist/blacklist are updated when the child spawns, and
> the logging done with the child dies.  We have a client who is trigger
> happy with their deny list, and is not satisified waiting for the
> program to update itself (I currently have it set to 3600 seconds).
> What I need to know to satisfy my superiors, is exactly would be the
> tradeoff to lowering this?
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.

We reload MailScanner after we make configuration changes. Unless you're
running on an underpowered server, I don't believe there would be a problem.
Probably more of a problem not "to satisfy my superiors" :)

Its always a good idea to tail the log files immediately after the reload.
Those typos can kill you.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com
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>
> Derek Buttineau
> Internet Systems Administrator
> Compu-SOLVE Technologies Inc.
> Compu-SOLVE Internet Services
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