[Mimedefang] Restart MIMEDefang after AV update?

[Chris Myers]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian McGraw" <bmcgraw at philorch.org>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:21 AM
Subject: [Mimedefang] Restart MIMEDefang after AV update?


> Hello list,
>
> Is it necessary to restart MIMEDefang after updating AV definitions,
specifically File::Scan and McAfee?

Yes, you would have to restart MIMEDefang after an update to File::Scan.
This is because File::Scan is a perl module that is loaded when MIMEDefang
is loaded, it's not an external program or daemon that is called
per-message.  Think of File::Scan as being part of your mimedefang-filter,
change the filter means restart (reload) MIMEDefang.

McAfee, Sophos, Trend, Clam, ... are all external and wouldn't require a
MIMEDefang restart.

Chris Myers
Networks By Design