Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:40:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> To: maillist@home.comhelp.com (Mail Lists) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <199707081940.PAA11540@limbo.senate.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970708120158.13828A-100000@home> from Mail Lists at "Jul 8, 97 12:03:46 pm"
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If sendmail was started with a full path (/usr/sbin/sendmail and not just
sendmail) you can send it a HUP signal and it will restart. Due to security
reasons it will not restart without a full pathname. If it has been started
this way, as is the case with a default 2.2.2 installation, first make sure
to change it in your rc file and then terminate sendmail, restart it again:
# ps -auxw | grep sendmail
root 10442 0.0 4.9 528 676 ?? Is 11:38AM 0:00.61 sendmail: accep
ting connections on port 25 (sendmail)
# kill 10442
# /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m
sendmail will log a message if it can't restart due to this problem. It is
a good idea to start it the right way in any case. In your /etc/rc:
if [ "X${sendmail_enable}" = X"YES" -a -r /etc/sendmail.cf ]; then
echo -n ' sendmail'; sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
fi
Change that to /usr/sbin/senmail ${sendmail_flags}, so next time you reboot
you will have it started the "correct" way.
>
> Hi...how do I restart sendmail....I just added some aliases and need to
> restart it....thanks...Adam
>
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