Re: [cobalt-users] EMERGENCY

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> > We did the same thing when we moved some sites using the CMU.
>> We had to have
>> > our colo do a reboot. Why does cobalt tell us to issue the command 'kill
>> > head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid' if it kills the RaQ?
>> I the command is supposed to be:
>> kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
>> The back ticks are pretty important.  The -1 is an argument to
>> head, not kill,
>> I will see what I can do about getting the docs changed.  To read this
>> command properly, the output of head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid
>> (which should be
>> the pid of sendmail) is sent to the kill command.
> To be honest Jeff - the manual needs to mention the difference between a `
> and a ' - people will try to use the apostrophe rather than the other mark
> (which I know of no name for), and of course this will fail - so then they
> assume the ` are a typo.

I think it should use /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop instead, less chance of
something going wrong.

Jeff-