Re: [cobalt-users] Suspending users & sites

["Rob Evans" <robe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "shimi" <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2001 20:43
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Suspending users & sites


>
> > have it run 'newaliases' when it's done, then restart sendmail to make the
> > changes active (by doing kill -HUP pid_of_sendmail).
>
> Couldn't resist...
>
> Admins can save lots of time by killing programs with their name, rather
> than their PID (as looking up a PID takes some time, especially when you
> rehash a sevice which changes it's PID constatnly.)
>
> The command is:
>
> killall -HUP sendmail
>
> - shimi

Is it really necessary to restart sendmail?  I rather gathered, from earlier
e-mails on this topic and from actual experience, that it was only necessary to
run 'newaliases' - and from that time on the new aliases were in effect.

Rob E.