[Mimedefang] When to restart?

[David T Hollis]

David F. Skoll wrote:

>On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
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>>    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?
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>Yes.  Depending on your OS, one of:
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>	/etc/init.d/mimedefang reread
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>	/etc/mail/mimedefang-ctrl reread
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>	kill -INT _pid_of_multiplexor_
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>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.
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>David.
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I just do a /etc/init.d/mimedefang reload whenever I update the filter 
(after doing a test run on it of course).  The only time I actually stop 
MD is if I upgrade it in which case I stop Sendmail first.