From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 22:41:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24391 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24382 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:40:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12541 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:41:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) Message-ID: <19990105114132.B23289@drwho.xnet.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:41:32 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell To: Subject: Re: Sendmail Security - URGENT Mail-Followup-To: References: <022601be381b$0ff5ec00$944845d1@Samantha.mi.verio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <022601be381b$0ff5ec00$944845d1@Samantha.mi.verio.net>; from Damon Hammis on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:47:28PM -0500 X-Useless-Header: http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:47:28PM -0500, Damon Hammis wrote: > killall -9 sendmail Unless there's a real emergency of some sort, you don't just "kill -9" every process you see. The *proper* way to shutdown sendmail, and this is the method given in the sendmail documentation, is to use the pid file (for convenience) and send it a TERM signal: kill -TERM `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` kill -9 could cause corrupted mail files, loss of email, etc... Should be used in extreme cases only. -- drwho @ xnet.com, BOFH -- http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "User Error: replace user and reboot." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message