Reloading MS service via email?

[Alex Neuman]

True... A cronjob could just check for changes to the file and killall -HUP
MailScanner if it does (no need to know the pid really, unless you used
different MailScanner processes with different config options).

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Max Kipness
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:15 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Reloading MS service via email?


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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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Derek Winkler
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:36 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [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?

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [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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