MailScanner.conf and MailScanner.conf.local

[Scott Silva]

Julian Field spake the following on 7/11/2007 1:03 PM:
> 
> 
> Nigel Kendrick wrote:
>> Julian et al.
> 
>> It occurs to me that over my not-very-massive pile of 4 mail servers, many
>> of the settings are common to the lot and if I tweak a 'generic' setting on
>> one I generally tweak it on all of them. To this end, is it possible (or
>> would it be possible) to have the site-specific settings in one config file
>> and generic ones in another (MailScanner.conf.local and MailScanner.conf?)
>> so I could arrange for a replication script to keep the generics in sync? 
> 
> I guess an "include" command could be possible. It would ruin the 
> upgrade_MailScanner_conf though which would be a great shame.
>> Following on from that, is there (or could there) be a mechanism to remotely
>> restart MailScanner - say, for example, by MailScanner noticing the creation
>> of /etc/MailScanner/restart.flg that could be put in place during a sync
>> operation as mentioned above?
> 
> Things like rsync allow a command to be executed upon completion of the 
> sync process.
> 
> Jules
> 
Or you could run mon or monit or something like that, and tell it to restart
MailScanner if the conf file changes.
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