Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:32:04 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>, michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980114153100.26691B-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <199801142002.UAA20232@awfulhak.org>
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> > 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. Can't you just HUP it? (newer versions?). In that case you could also cat the pid file and hup it.
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