Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:02:13 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* Message-ID: <199801142002.UAA20232@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 Jan 1998 09:28:57 CST." <8767nnf51i.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
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> michael dorin <mike@chaski.com> writes:
>
> > How do I restart smtp without rebooting after I change the sendmail
> > files?
>
> In my opinion this is a benefit of sysV way of doing things over
> BSD--under solaris, e.g., you do /etc/init.d/sendmail stop;
> /etc/init.d/sendmail start and you don't have to worry about flags and
> so on.
>
> Unless I'm sadly mistaken and need to take myself out and shoot
> myself, under freebsd you need to (a) ps -auxx and find the sendmail
> process and kill it (or use killall, which I never think of b/c I use
> solaris so much, and killall in solaris does something totally
> immoral) (b) check the flags for sendmail in /etc/rc.conf, and then
> (c) run sendmail (which is in /usr/sbin) with those flags. (of course
> you quickly learn /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h).
Or you can just type "killall -1 sendmail" because you quickly learn
that FreeBSD ain't Slowaris :-)
IMO, this is a benefit of the FreeBSD way of doing things over SysV.
It also means that you don't refuse smtp connections between the stop
and start.
> --
>
> Steve Farrell
>
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