Problems reloading amavisd on fc17

Hi all,

I've discovered that when I use "service amavisd reload" to signal amavisd to reload the spamassassin rules, it sometimes exits completely. If I use restart, it works fine.

However, using restart seems unnecessary and causes problems with postfix. What is the proper way to signal amavisd to reload the spamassassin rules?

Is there a kill signal that I can send? Is there a more appropriate command to use?

Thanks,
Alex