Re: AW: [vps-mail] SA 3.02 - restarting spamd to read local.cf whitelists?

[Abigail Marshall <abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> i only use it on the shell not with an alias and i
> don't catch this 
> problem, there should be a way to escape it so it
> run each time.
> i will see if i can find it when i have 5 minutes
> before me.

I had run into this problem before with aliasing - and
I haven't been able to find a solution - but then I
doubt I ever found or spent 5 minutes seeking one. The
problem is that we create aliases to save time.... and
if we are going to spend 5 minutes at anything, we
might as well type out the command. 

Then again, I confess to have been in the very, very
bad habit of restarting spamd with a reboot -- that's
a lot of brute force for a minor problem.  That was
very lazy on my part.... so I'm happy to have a much
more gentle approach. 

> anyway you 
> can put this shell script:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> kill -HUP `cat /var/run/spamd.pid`
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> in /usr/local/bin and chmod it to 750  and chown
> root:wheel
> this way it will work all the time :p
> 

Thank you for the very clear instructions! Your script
works like a charm -- to avoid confusion with the
other alias I created, I named the script reset_spamd
-- and with that script, of course, there is no need
for an alias.  

-Abigail
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