Reloading MS service via email?

[Max Kipness]

I dont' like this method because if a user is looking to whitelist
someone quick, they need to wait for an hour. If I was going to go this
route, I would create a script that reloads MS every 5 minutes, but only
after it reads the white and blacklist and verifies that there are
additions to the files.
 
Max

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Alex Neuman
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:10 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Reloading MS service via email?


Even better idea... thanks!

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[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Derek Winkler
        Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:36 PM
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        Subject: Re: Reloading MS service via email?
	
	
        I just lowered my MailScanner restarts to an hour and took users
it can take an hour or two to take effect.
         
        See Restart Every in config file.

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[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf Of Alex Neuman
                Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:35 PM
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                Subject: Re: Reloading MS service via email?
        	
        	
                You could always set up a cronjob to killall -HUP
MailScanner every other hour, for example. Settings would be reloaded,
wouldn't they?

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[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Max Kipness
                        Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:11 PM
                        To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
                        Subject: Reloading MS service via email?
                	
                	
                        I've got my scripts pretty much ironed out so
that a user can simply forward a spam message to an email address, have
the spam email added to the blacklist and then sent a confirmation. What
I'd like to also do is have the script reload the MailScanner service.
Since this is being done via the user 'mail', can anyone give me some
tips on the best way to accomplish this. So far I'm thinking of using
SUDO to allow 'mail' to run 'kill' and /etc/init.d/MailScanner? Is there
a better and/or more secure way?
                         
                        Thanks,
                        Max

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