User Guide

APPENDIX A. ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT
KASPERSKY ANTI-SPAM
A.1. The ap-process-server program
(master process)
A.1.1. Starting and stopping the master
process
The ap-process-server program (master process) starts during the installation of
Kaspersky Anti-Spam and at the server restart.
For normal operation of Kaspersky Anti-Spam the master process must operate
continuously.
The master process is started by the following command:
/usr/local/ap-mailfilter/bin/ap-process-server
[<configuration file name>]
The default name of the configuration file is:
/usr/local/ap-mailfilter/etc/ap-
process-server.conf
.
When started, the program creates a pid file. The name of this pid file and the
path to it are specified in the configuration file. The default path is: /var/tmp/ap-
process-server.pid.
The master process re-reads the configuration file every time it receives the
SIGHUP signal.
The master process stops after it receives the SIGTERM signal. While preparing
to stop, the master process awaits while its child processes complete for 10
seconds and if they did not complete within these 10 seconds, a SIGKILL signal
will be sent to the child processes.