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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.*
In-Reply-To: <19980114091759.24402@denver.net> from John-David Childs at "Jan 14, 98 09:17:59 am"
To: jdc@nterprise.net (John-David Childs)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:47:59 -0800 (PST)
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John-David Childs wrote:
> 19428
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m
> 
> 
> SO: I do the following:
> 
>     kill -9 `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`;/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m

	ouch.....why kill sendmail dead and then restart it from scratch.
	sendmail will re-read /etc/sendmail.cf
	if 1. it was started with a full path name (like yours above)
	   2. you send it a HUP
jmbn