User Guide

Advanced application settings 63
Value Meaning
start
Start the application.
stop
Stop the application.
restart
Stop and then start the application.
reload
Reinitialize the smtpgw component and reload the anti-virus
database and the configuration file.
reload-
bases
Reload the anti-virus databases.
status
Request the application status.
stats
Request the application statistics.
recv-off
Suspend the operation of the Receiver module.
recv-on
Resume the operation of the Receiver module.
send-off
Suspend the operation of the Sender module.
send-on
Resume the operation of the Sender module.
avir-off
Suspend the operation of the AV module.
avir-on
Resume the operation of the AV module.
5.11. Control of application activity
A special watchdog process controls correct functioning of individual application
modules while the software is running. As soon as the application starts, it
creates a child process monitoring the application. If upon a specified interval the
parent process receives no confirmation of correct operation from any module,
the watchdog process restarts the application.
You can control timeouts of the watchdog process using the
application command line options. See section A.7 on p. 106 for
details.