Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:17:59 -0700 From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* Message-ID: <19980114091759.24402@denver.net> In-Reply-To: <199801140606.GAA00312@chaski.com>; from michael dorin on Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 06:06:29AM %2B0000 References: <199801140606.GAA00312@chaski.com>
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On Wednesday January 14, 1998, michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>
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
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