Re: [cobalt-users] mail / raq3i

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:46:34PM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
: Mat Kovach wrote:
: I very seldom find myself disagreeing with you.  I don't want to start
: now.

Because I'm seldomly wrong? :)
 
: Why would you have to stop those other processes, since they've just
: been started to handle specific tasks and they'll go away as soon as the
: task ends?

Just experience on my part.  I have never seen the init scripts work 
correctly to restart sendmail and yes you could do

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid|head -1` 

to just kill the main process and have the same effect.
 
: I've never seen any reason to stop any sendmail processes except the
: main one that I started, which starts the others as necessary.
: 
: Sendmail the book, seems to say the same.  At least my copy <smile>.

Color me lazy, killall -HUP sendmail is just so easy to type and sending
HUP to the other process (which generally are sending mail) doesn't have
a bad effect on it.

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net