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Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* 
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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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