From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 15:33:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15192 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:33:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15157 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA26711; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:32:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:32:04 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Brian Somers cc: stephen farrell , michael dorin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* In-Reply-To: <199801142002.UAA20232@awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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.