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<TITLE>RE: Feature Request - Include: <file></TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm running MailScanner on a Solaris system, so the "service MailScanner reload" is not available but I should be able to script something similar.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Just to be sure, do all the processes need to HUP'd? or just the parent? </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Julian Field [<A HREF="mailto:mailscanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mailto:mailscanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:58 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: MAILSCANNER@jiscmail.ac.uk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: Feature Request - Include: <file></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>At 20:51 16/12/2002, you wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>I've given this some consideration and one of the problems with cat'ing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>the files together is timing.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>I don't know when exactly to do it so that when MS is started it gets the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>most recent versions.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>If I cat the files together every x minutes, I could miss out on just</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>under x minutes worth of updates when MS restarts.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>After you have cated them together, do a "service MailScanner reload" which</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>will "kill -HUP" all the MailScanner processes causing them to immediately</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>re-configure themselves using the latest configuration files.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>--</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Julian Field</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>www.MailScanner.info</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support</FONT>
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