Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:09:17 -0700 From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* Message-ID: <19980115120917.43100@denver.net> In-Reply-To: <199801151647.IAA09383@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 08:47:59AM -0800 References: <19980114091759.24402@denver.net> <199801151647.IAA09383@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thursday January 15, 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> 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.
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