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  thanks...I know ...I'm getting the books this weekend....Adam

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Oliver Banta wrote:

> >   Hi...how do I restart sendmail....I just added some aliases and need to 
> > restart it....thanks...Adam
> 
>    I'm sorry, but if you are going to ask a question every single
> time you run into a snag, people on this list are going to stop
> reading your messages all together.  
> 
> % sh -c 'set `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`; kill $1; shift; eval "$@"'
> 
> If that doesn't work, kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid` should do
> the trick.  
> 
> You may also need to run the "newalias" command, check /etc/alias for
> more info.
> 
> -- 
> Oliver Banta <obanta@bsdhackers.org>	
> 
> "{Free|Open}BSD, cause we can't get girlfriends" - regex & h3x
>