Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:47:42 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>, michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp restarting after changes to sendmail.* Message-ID: <199801142347.XAA21513@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:32:04 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980114153100.26691B-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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> > > 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).
> >
> > Or you can just type "killall -1 sendmail" because you quickly learn
> > that FreeBSD ain't Slowaris :-)
> >
> > IMO, this is a benefit of the FreeBSD way of doing things over SysV.
> > It also means that you don't refuse smtp connections between the stop
> > and start.
>
> Can't you just HUP it? (newer versions?). In that case you could also cat
> the pid file and hup it.
Yeah. That's the same as the -1. I find `killall' easier 'cos
there's fewer characters :-)
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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