{Spam?} How To Restart MailScanner After Modifying MailScanner.conf

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 26 19:00:29 GMT 2008


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Peter Farrow wrote:
> Adam Gross wrote:
>> #killall -9 MailScanner
>> Wait a few seconds...
>> #check_mailscanner
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeff
>> Salisbury
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:53 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: {Spam?} How To Restart MailScanner After Modifying
>> MailScanner.conf
>>
>> Greetings,  How do I restart MailScanner after I've modified 
>> MailScanner.conf?
>>
>> Regards,  Jeff
>>
>>   
> On redhat/centos etc you can use
>
> service MailScanner restart
>
> anything after ~ 4.65 will wait in the middle of the restart for the 
> old processes to die with the  output "waiting for mailscanner to die 
> gracefull"
>
> Prior to 4.65 (roughly), it will fail to start cleanly as it doesn't 
> wait before trying to restart
Yes it does wait, it waits 30 seconds.

Jules

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