RE: [cobalt-users] Smpt claims to be Down but isn't

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It seems that whenever I restart sendmail with the new .cf
> for blacklist lookup, the server claims to shutdown then 
> restart SMTP at 15 minute intervals (the time is actually not 
> consistent - sometimes it will be Ok for a couple of hours, 
> other times its regular 
> at the 15 min. intervals).  The strange thing is that I can 
> still send 
> emails during the supposed shutdown and a PS shows sendmail 
> accepting connections. 

When I make a change to sendmail.cf I do:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
killall -9 sendmail
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start

Then to make sure it's running:
ps waux | grep sendmail
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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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