RE: [cobalt-users] Problem with mailscanner when sendmail restarts

["Rob Bootsma" <rbootsma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I am installing mailscanner on a 550 and have hit a snag.
Mailscanner
> > works great when you leave it alone.  However, when I make changes
such
> > as adding or deleting a site, sendmail needs to update its alias
file,
> > and somehow sendmail is restarted.  This is what I need to
understand
> > better.  I think what I want is to restart mailscanner, which in
turn
> > starts sendmail, rather than having sendmail start by some other
> > process.  Otherwise, mailscanner will report errors and stop
processing
> > mail, even though mail will still get delivered.
> 
> Yes restart MailScanner don't touch sendmail now that you have
installed
> MailScanner.
> 
> MailScanner controls sendmail and the aliases will still get rebuilt.
The
> problem that you have now is that after any changes in the GUI you
need to
> do a manual MailScanner restart so that aliases etc get rebuilt

Exactly.  This is what I'm trying to avoid.  There must be a way to
automate this.  If I knew which process fired off sendmail restart after
a GUI change, I could just go and change that to MailScanner restart, or
something similar.

Rob