From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 8 15:02:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11381 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11373 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA17169; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:09:12 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:09:11 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs To: Mail Lists cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Mail Lists wrote: > Hi...how do I restart sendmail....I just added some aliases and need to > restart it....thanks...Adam > BUY A UNIX Sysadmin book! :-) Seriously, we all started somewhere, and I have certainly asked my fair share of newbie questions of various lists as I started on the road to ISP-dom several years ago, but you'll save yourself a lot of grief by curling up at night to a good Unix Sysadmin book (there's an old wives tale that if you fall asleep reading a "textbook" (e.g. not a fiction book) that all the information therein will be absorbed into your brain over the course of several nights ;-) If you added aliases to /etc/aliases, and ran the "newaliases" command, I do not believe you need to restart sendmail. But if you do, see the man page for the "kill" and "ps" commands. -- John-David Childs (JC612) @denver.net/Internet-Coach System Administrator Enterprise Internet Solutions & Network Engineer 901 E 17th Ave, Denver 80218 "I used up all my sick days... so I'm calling in dead!"