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Date:      Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:48:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        kwoody@citytel.net (Kwoody)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: restarting sendamil
Message-ID:  <199801072248.OAA20658@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980107124503.5318A-100000@mybsd.net> from "Kwoody" at Jan 7, 98 12:45:50 pm

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Kwoody wrote:
> 
> I killed sendmail with kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
> 
> now how to do I restart it with the tail command?

	"kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`"  
	is what you want to use to get sendmail to reread its config file.

	to restart sendmail
	`tail -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

jmb



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