From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 08:18:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15188 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:18:14 -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 IAA15078 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdc@milehigh.denver.net) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09739; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:17:59 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <19980114091759.24402@denver.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:17:59 -0700 From: John-David Childs To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* References: <199801140606.GAA00312@chaski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199801140606.GAA00312@chaski.com>; from michael dorin on Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 06:06:29AM +0000 Organization: Enterprise Internet Solutions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wednesday January 14, 1998, michael dorin had this to say about "smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.*": > > How do I restart smtp without rebooting after I change the sendmail > files? > > -Mike The PID of the active sendmail process should be listed in /var/run/sendmail.pid In the version I'm running (8.8.8) my /var/run/sendmail.pid looks something like: 19428 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m SO: I do the following: kill -9 `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`;/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m -- 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.