From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 19:59:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410E937B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.135.39.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.135.39]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08908; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f622xRh11734; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:59:27 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong , so@server.i-clue.de, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Restart /etc/rc.conf Message-ID: <20010701195927.K296@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3B3FC775.F9B111CD@pacific.net.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jslivko@jslivko.org on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:13:14AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:13:14AM +0100, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: > ps -aux | grep sendmail > kill -9 > done. Don't use signal 9 (SIGKILL) unless you have to. It does not allow a program to clean up or do other things before exiting. Use the default SIGTERM. To properly shutdown sendmail, # kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message