Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 04:02:31 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> To: stephen@farrell.org (stephen farrell) Cc: mike@chaski.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* Message-ID: <199801141702.EAA01686@mother.sneaker.net.au> In-Reply-To: <8767nnf51i.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> from "stephen farrell" at Jan 14, 98 09:28:57 am
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| michael dorin <mike@chaski.com> writes:
|
| > How do I restart smtp without rebooting after I change the sendmail
| > files?
|
| In my opinion this is a benefit of sysV way of doing things over
| BSD--under solaris, e.g., you do /etc/init.d/sendmail stop;
| /etc/init.d/sendmail start and you don't have to worry about flags and
| so on.
|
| Unless I'm sadly mistaken and need to take myself out and shoot
| myself, under freebsd you need to (a) ps -auxx and find the sendmail
| process and kill it (or use killall, which I never think of b/c I use
| solaris so much, and killall in solaris does something totally
| immoral) (b) check the flags for sendmail in /etc/rc.conf, and then
| (c) run sendmail (which is in /usr/sbin) with those flags. (of course
| you quickly learn /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h).
If you start it with a full path, I'm sure you can sighup it and it'll
restart with all flags intact.
so if you start it as /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd ....
rather than just sendmail -bd ....
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