[Mimedefang] When to restart?

[Dave Williss]

Will it respond to a HUP signal the same way?
A lot of other software re-reads its configs on SIGHUP, so that's if I were
to guess, I'd do the same thing with MD.  If it doesn't reread on SIGHUP, at
least it shouldn't exit.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: "MIMEDefang Mailing List" <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] When to restart?


> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
> >     When, and how, should one restart MD?  Obviously whenever I make
> > changes to my mimedefang-filter, MD would need to be restarted.  The
> > same goes if I change my sendmail .mc files, but what about making
> > changes to sa-mimedefang.cf ?  Should MD be restarted then too?
>
> Yes.  Depending on your OS, one of:
>
> /etc/init.d/mimedefang reread
>
> /etc/mail/mimedefang-ctrl reread
>
> kill -INT _pid_of_multiplexor_
>
> is the best way to do it.  A reread (basically, send an INT signal to
> the multiplexor) is cheap and safe, and sufficient if you've only
> changed filter rules or SA configuration.
>
> --
> David.
>
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