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From: rvb <rvb01@mediaone.net>
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Restart /etc/rc.conf
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 05:57:49 -0400
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I agree.  And instead of using:

  # kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

you could do:
  # ps -aux | grep sendmail
  # kill -1 <sendmail pid>

The kill -1 sends a SIGHUP which bounces (stops and restarts)
sendmail.

rvb


"Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:13:14AM +0100, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
>> ps -aux | grep sendmail
>> kill -9 <sendmail's pid>
>> 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`

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