From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 11:10:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29752 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29618; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:08:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdc@milehigh.denver.net) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19679; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:09:17 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <19980115120917.43100@denver.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:09:17 -0700 From: John-David Childs To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* References: <19980114091759.24402@denver.net> <199801151647.IAA09383@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199801151647.IAA09383@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 08:47:59AM -0800 Organization: Enterprise Internet Solutions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thursday January 15, 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler had this to say about "Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.*": > John-David Childs wrote: > > 19428 > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m > > > > > > SO: I do the following: > > > > kill -9 `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`;/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m > > ouch.....why kill sendmail dead and then restart it from scratch. > sendmail will re-read /etc/sendmail.cf > if 1. it was started with a full path name (like yours above) > 2. you send it a HUP > jmbn HUP's to sendmail work for changes to /etc/sendmail.cw and /etc/sendmail.cf, but do not work for changes to the "database" files like /etc/virtusertable, /etc/mailertable, /etc/genericstable, etc. Since I end up changing those files more often than sendmail.cw or sendmail.cf, I just got in the habit of sending a -9 instead of a -1 :-) -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions System Administrator @denver.net/Internet-Coach/@ronan.net & Network Engineer 1039 S. Parker Rd. #I-8 Denver, CO 80231 As of this^H^H^H^H next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.