Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:33:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, chem@i-p-d.nl Subject: Restarting sendmail (was: cucipop virtual popservers) Message-ID: <19990123133317.H26886@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990122220045.C26750@intrepid.net>; from Mark Conway Wirt on Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:00:45PM -0500 References: <19990122201539.C4461@intrepid.net> <19990123120030.B26886@freebie.lemis.com> <19990122220045.C26750@intrepid.net>
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On Friday, 22 January 1999 at 22:00:45 -0500, Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:00:30PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> # kill -1 `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid ` >> Jan 23 11:58:26 freebie sendmail[188]: restarting /usr/sbin/sendmail on signal >> Jan 23 11:58:26 freebie sendmail[27101]: starting daemon (8.9.2): SMTP > ^^^^^ > > I'm running 8.8.8. Is this new behaviour for 8.9? No. It's been around for as long as I can remember. One point that somebody made, however: I was cheating with the kill command. sendmail's pid file contains additional information, so this command produces the following error messages: kill: /usr/sbin/sendmail: no such pid kill: -bd: no such pid kill: -q30m: no such pid The correct command is kill -1 `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid ` Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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