MailScanner init script on Fedora

Aaron K. Moore amoore at dekalbmemorial.com
Mon Jul 23 20:46:42 IST 2007


mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Mark Nienberg wrote:
> 
>> Usage: service MailScanner
>> {start|stop|status|restart|reload|startin|startout|stopms}
>> 
>> Usually when I want to upgrade MailScanner or SpamAssassin or ClamAV
>> I do 
>> 
>> service MailScanner stopms
>> 
>> which stops MailScanner but leaves the two sendmail processes
>> running. After my upgrade, how do I start MailScanner again, without
>> affecting the sendmail processes?

I always do a "service MailScanner restart" at that point.  Yes it does
take down sendmail, but it's only for a few seconds.

-- 
Aaron Kent Moore
Information Technology Services
DeKalb Memorial Hospital, Inc.
Auburn, Indiana
Phone:  260.920.2808
E-Mail:  amoore at dekalbmemorial.com


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