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You'll be better off with something like:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m

(or whatever your rc.conf file uses to bring sendmail up in the first
place)...

The PID file tells you the PID sendmail was running as - once it's dead the
PID is useless (it'll get another PID when it next comes up - very probably a
different one ;-)

Regards,

Kp

Kwoody wrote:
> 
> I killed sendmail with kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
> 
> now how to do I restart it with the tail command?