[Mimedefang] Restart MIMEDefang after AV update?

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Chris Myers wrote:

> If you are using embedded Perl, I suppose you would have to restart the
> whole mimedefang system.

It depends on how buggy your version of Perl is. :-)

On Red Hat Linux 8 and 9, you can do "md-mx-ctrl reread" and you'll be
OK.

On Solaris 9, even explicitly following the instructions in the perlembed
man page, destroying and recreating the Perl interpreter yields a
segfault.

I started trying to debug this, but got scared away by the innards of
Perl.  A colleague of mine ran Perl under a tool to detect memory leaks,
and he found all kinds of leaks and bad memory references inside Perl.

Regards,

David.