Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail in -stable and aliases Message-ID: <199804222351.QAA05310@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19980422230340.A415@physik.fu-berlin.de> from Axel Thimm at "Apr 22, 98 11:03:40 pm"
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Axel Thimm wrote: > > About the `restarting sendmail' trap: I had looked through the man pages and found > nothing suggesting a restart. Should this be mentioned in newaliases at least? > > On the other hand there are some parts of sendmail.cf > > > # automatically rebuild the alias database? > > #O AutoRebuildAliases > > implying that it might even be safe to not issue newaliases at all, if these entries > had been uncommented. (But then this might be the reasin they are commented). no it does not imply that at all. rather some sites chose not to rebuild aliases automatically. automatic rebuilds slow sendmail down a little, auto rebuilds of large aliases files can slow things down noticeably. any time you change the sendmail.cf file, you must notify the sendmail daemon. you can notify sendmail by sending a HUP, if and only if sendmail was started with a fully quantified pathname (/usr/bin/sendmail not just sendmail). if it was started as "sendmail" (without the full pathname) you must kill the daemon first. then start it again. mb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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