When do config/rule changes take effect?

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Mon Apr 2 15:31:20 IST 2007


I believe the new config will take effect as each child process reaches
its maximum age and gets restarted.

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:24, Paul Hutchings wrote:
> I've just made our MailScanner live.  Seems to be doing a cracking job
> so far.
> 
> A question though.
> 
> As I tweak rules do I need to do a full "/etc/init.d/MailScanner
> restart" or can I somehow force MailScanner to refresh its configuration
> whilst running?  
> 
> I've RTFM and wasn't too clear on this point.
> 
> cheers,
> Paul
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