How to force to reload a blocklist?

[geekytone]

Good morning,

We currently have a custom blocklist and we managed to implement a webui for asking an unblock. But as the blocklist can only be reloaded each 3600s, the user have to wait a maximum time of 3600s to get unblocked.

Is there a way to trigger a blocklist reload within CSF/LFD from SSH? In this way we'll be able to unblock instantly an user.

[Sergio]

yes, in CSF are the instructions for this:

# After making any changes to this file you must restart csf and then lfd
#
# If you want to redownload a blocklist you must first delete
# /var/lib/csf/csf.block.NAME and then restart csf and then lfd

[geekytone]

yes, in CSF are the instructions for this:

Hello,

Thank you for your help, it works.

[Sergio]

You're welcome.

[bulgin23]

Confused could use some help.

The instructions state:

# After making any changes to this file you must restart csf and then lfd
#
# If you want to redownload a blocklist you must first delete
# /var/lib/csf/csf.block.NAME and then restart csf and then lfd

That's easy enough to understand but when I simply re-start csf/lfd without deleting anything beforehand, I'm seeing new timestampts on the files.

Does that mean they were or were not upgraded/reloaded?

I simply want to automate new lists downloads and it's hard fo find out how to this specific task.

Thank you!