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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.*
In-Reply-To: <19980115120917.43100@denver.net> from John-David Childs at "Jan 15, 98 12:09:17 pm"
To: jdc@nterprise.net (John-David Childs)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:46:12 -0800 (PST)
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John-David Childs wrote:
> On Thursday January 15, 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
>  had this to say about "Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.*":
> 
> > 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
> 
> HUP's to sendmail work for changes to /etc/sendmail.cw and
> /etc/sendmail.cf, but do not work for changes to the "database" files like
> /etc/virtusertable, /etc/mailertable, /etc/genericstable, etc.   Since I
> end up changing those files more often than sendmail.cw or sendmail.cf, I
> just got in the habit of sending a -9 instead of a -1 :-)

	ackkkk!!!!!!

	you dont need to HUP or kill -9 for tthose to take effect.
	i edit the /etc/mailertable and its automagically effective.

	makemap hash /etc/mailertable < /etc/mailertable
		     ^                  ^
		     |                  |
		     |                  ---  the ascii source file
		     ---- the database, really /etc/mailertable.db

	so long as the inode number does not change (dont cp or mv it)
	it works like magic  ;)
jmb