From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 22 19:03:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29903 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29895 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:03:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA29766; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:33:19 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id NAA36632; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:33:17 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:33:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Conway Wirt Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, chem@i-p-d.nl Subject: Restarting sendmail (was: cucipop virtual popservers) Message-ID: <19990123133317.H26886@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990122201539.C4461@intrepid.net> <19990123120030.B26886@freebie.lemis.com> <19990122220045.C26750@intrepid.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990122220045.C26750@intrepid.net>; from Mark Conway Wirt on Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:00:45PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 22 January 1999 at 22:00:45 -0500, Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:00:30PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> # kill -1 `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid ` >> Jan 23 11:58:26 freebie sendmail[188]: restarting /usr/sbin/sendmail on signal >> Jan 23 11:58:26 freebie sendmail[27101]: starting daemon (8.9.2): SMTP > ^^^^^ > > I'm running 8.8.8. Is this new behaviour for 8.9? No. It's been around for as long as I can remember. One point that somebody made, however: I was cheating with the kill command. sendmail's pid file contains additional information, so this command produces the following error messages: kill: /usr/sbin/sendmail: no such pid kill: -bd: no such pid kill: -q30m: no such pid The correct command is kill -1 `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid ` Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message