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Nicolai P Guba <nicolai@btinternet.com> writes:

> On Saturday 20 September 2003 15:34, fbsd_user wrote:
> > server you have to disable sendmail and reboot FBSD.
> 
> *ouch*  reboots are evil.
> 
> surely there is another way of doing this. or?

Yes.  You can just kill your sendmail processes.

In this case, though, I would recommend doing the reboot so that you
can be sure it will come up properly if you have an unscheduled
reboot.  E-mail is too important to trust in untested startup
procedures.