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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.*
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980114153100.26691B-100000@luke.cpl.net> from Shawn Ramsey at "Jan 14, 98 03:32:04 pm"
To: shawn@luke.cpl.net (Shawn Ramsey)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:17:21 -0800 (PST)
Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, stephen@farrell.org, mike@chaski.com,
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Shawn Ramsey wrote:
> > > 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.

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

	make sure that you invoke sendmail with its full path,
	/usr/sbin/sendmail.  you can check how you invoked sendmail
	using "tail -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid"

	if it does not show "/usr/sbin/sendmail....."
	fix your /etc/rc script.
jmb