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From: "Nicholas Holshouser" <nickh@ncnatural.com>
To: "Kwoody" <kwoody@citytel.net>,
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Subject: Re: restarting sendamil
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:51:37 -0500
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Better to kill -HUP it to let it restart itself

kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

-----Original Message-----
From: Kwoody <kwoody@citytel.net>
>I killed sendmail with kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
>
>now how to do I restart it with the tail command?