8.7 dgrey commands

This section lists all commands that dgrey accepts through dgrey-cmd.

ping

This command can be used to test if the daemon is alive and answering requests.

terminate

This command tells the daemon to terminate itself.

database-maintenance

Tell dgrey to start the database maintenance. This may be quite time consuming, since all entries in the databases will be iterated and old ones will be discarded. The log file will tell how long the maintenance took.

rotate-action-log

Remove old parts of the action log. The retain argument specifies number of bytes to keep in the log file (10000 if not specified). (Note that complete lines are kept, which means the new log file may not be exactly this large.)

This is done to keep the file from growing too large.

reload-whitelist-files

Reload the whitelist files specified in the configuration file.

write-poll-host-offsets

Write poll host offsets to the database directory. (This could be considered a partial "sync" operation.)

check-config-file

Read the configuration file and check its syntax.

reload-config-file

Reload the configuration file.

reconnect-poll-hosts

Attempt to immediately connect to poll hosts, if there are unconnected poll hosts.

reopen-log-file

Close the current log file and open it again. This is often necessary after log rotation.

poll

This command is used internally between dgrey nodes to start synchronizing data.

dump-greylist-database

dump-awl-database

These commands outputs the greylist and awl database, respectively, one record per line, key first then value (tab separated). You can use the dgrey-restore command to restore the database. Database management.