Re: use pfctl to reread /etc/mail/spamd-white table

On 2021-10-28 12:58, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 11:55:33AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> my pf.conf contains
>>
>> table <spamd-white> persist file "/etc/mail/spamd-white"
>>
>> I understand that I can add and delete hosts from the table manually
>> later, but on very large tables this is pretty painful. There is a
>> high
>> risk that the table has just been flushed and is not up-to-date yet,
>> while the next EMail comes in.
>>
>> Would it be possible to add some magic to pfctl -T to reread the whole
>> table from file and hand it off to pf in an atomic operation?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Harri
>>
>
> AFAIK
>
> pfctl -t spamd-white -T replace -g /etc/mail/spamd-white

s/-g/-f/ :)

Mischa

>
> does already do an update of the table in an atomic way.
>
> -Otto