From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 15:52:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17756 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:52:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17616 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:50:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA21513; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:47:42 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801142347.XAA21513@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Shawn Ramsey cc: Brian Somers , stephen farrell , michael dorin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:32:04 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:47:42 +0000 From: Brian Somers 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. Yeah. That's the same as the -1. I find `killall' easier 'cos there's fewer characters :-) -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....