From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 16:27:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siegfried.utmb.edu (siegfried.utmb.edu [129.109.59.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3445A37B41A for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by siegfried.utmb.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3J0XTW00916 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:33:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:33:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" Message-Id: <200204190033.g3J0XTW00916@siegfried.utmb.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: resolver library and changes in /etc/resolv.conf 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 As part of debugging massive email failures for my local lab domain after our campus IS people changed from Solaris to Windows2000 for DNS last weekend, I had the occasion to change the name server entries in /etc/resolv.conf. I thought (wrongly it turns out) that I could just make the changes, and they would be picked up automatically. Is this sendmail remembering the name server list it got when it was started? Can I just send it a HUP and have it pick up the changes? I know that going down to single user and back to multiuser is sufficient, but is there a less intrusive way to force the changes to be recognized? I would like a procedure that worked globally for all processes, not just sendmail, if possible. TIA, Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message