Another possible enhancement

[Randal, Phil]

It's probably a good idea to make the frequency that the list of files
is checked for changes configurable too.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> Of Randal, Phil
> Sent: 06 September 2007 17:14
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> Subject: Another possible enhancement
> 
> Jules recently changed the default child process lifetime to 
> 2 hours to
> enable children to use updates in phishing.bad.sites list sooner.
> 
> How about a new config option to kill (and restart) children 
> if any file
> in a list changes.
> 
> So you could specify a longer child lifetime by default yet have
> MailScanner reload children when certain files change.
> 
> I tend to put all my custom rules into one file.  If MailScanner
> monitored that and reloaded when it changed, I wouldn't have to do a
> MailScanner reload every time I edited it.
> 
> Comments, anyone?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> 
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> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK 
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