
Operation
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6 Operation
After completing installation and configuration and after starting
Avira AntiVir MailGate, the program ensures that your system is constantly
monitored. In the course of the usage process, occasional changes to the
configuration may be required. The Chapter Configuration – Page24
contains explanations relating to this.
In some cases, it is necessary to operate Avira AntiVir MailGate manually
or to manually process the files filtered by Avira AntiVir MailGate.
This chapter describes the follow topics:
Starting and stopping Avira AntiVir MailGate manually – Page93
Parameters for the SMTP and Scanner daemon – Page95
Queue manager avq – Page96
You can also find information on
Procedures for identifying viruses or unwanted programs – Page107
6.1 Starting and stopping Avira AntiVir MailGate manually
If you have installed Avira AntiVir MailGate according to the description in
Installation – Page13 it is started and stopped automatically by the system.
In certain cases, however, Avira AntiVir MailGate has to be started and stopped
manually. Any changes to the configuration files are not enabled until the program
is restarted.
The script
/usr/lib/AntiVir/mailgate/avmailgate starts and stops the Scanner and the
Avira AntiVir MailGate daemon.
To be able to start or stop Avira AntiVir MailGate manually, you must be logged on as the
root user or be assigned the necessary access rights.
From Version 3.0.0 onwards, Avira AntiVir MailGate uses a new scanner which has to be
started before avmailgate.bin. For this reason, MailGate must be started and stopped
with the aid of the script “avmailgate”:
/usr/lib/AntiVir/mailgate/avmailgate start
/usr/lib/AntiVir/mailgate/avmailgate stop
If you are using your own script, you should note that the Scanner is started first. In the
script “avmailgate” you will find an example of how the Scanner backend can be started.
If you want to transfer specific command line options to Avira AntiVir MailGate, you can
add them to the “DAEMONPARAMS” parameter in the script (see Parameters for
avmailgate.bin).
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