Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:42:18 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980114184059.20330A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <8767nnf51i.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
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On 14 Jan 1998, stephen farrell wrote: > 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). As someone else already noted, you can simply kill -1 `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` and be done with it. No need to shoot yourself though... ;-) > > -- > > Steve Farrell > > Nadav
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