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Date:      Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:59:27 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jslivko.org>
Cc:        Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>, so@server.i-clue.de, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Restart /etc/rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20010701195927.K296@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107020212510.26376-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from jslivko@jslivko.org on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:13:14AM %2B0100
References:  <3B3FC775.F9B111CD@pacific.net.sg> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107020212510.26376-100000@localhost.localdomain>

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:13:14AM +0100, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> ps -aux | grep sendmail
> kill -9 <sendmail's pid>
> done.

Don't use signal 9 (SIGKILL) unless you have to. It does not allow a
program to clean up or do other things before exiting. Use the default
SIGTERM.

To properly shutdown sendmail,

  # kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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