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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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