When do config/rule changes take effect?

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Mon Apr 2 15:46:35 IST 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:40, Paul @ Firespam wrote:
> >> I believe the new config will take effect as each child process reaches
> >> its maximum age and gets restarted.
> 
> Out of curiosity, where is this maximum age defined?

Its in the standard mailscanner config file :-
# To avoid resource leaks, re-start periodically
Restart Every = 14400

> And does this apply for spam.whitelist.rules & spam.blacklist.rules changes?
> 

Yes it does seem to. Each child process that gets started seems to load
its own configuration in as you can see if you monitor the mail log
file.

> 
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