From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 08:52:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20641 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:52:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20510 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA01686; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 04:02:32 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199801141702.EAA01686@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* To: stephen@farrell.org (stephen farrell) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 04:02:31 +1100 (EST) Cc: mike@chaski.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <8767nnf51i.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> from "stephen farrell" at Jan 14, 98 09:28:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk +-----[ stephen farrell ]------------------------------ | | michael dorin 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 .... -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |