Re: [cobalt-users] Suspending users & sites

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5/8/01 09:29 AM -0400, you wrote:
> shimi, do
> you have any thoughts on this?  Anyone else?

While I believe Shimi when he says that will work, you're right in that 
killall sends a signal to multiple processes matching sendmail. I'd rather 
not do that. The command to restart sendmail is "officially" as listed in 
the instructions something like:

kill -HUP `head -n 1 sendmail.pid` (NOT EXACT COMMAND)

I just wrote a tiny script in the /root/bin directory called 
sendmail.restart, put these contents in it:

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#!/bin/bash
#

echo "Rehashing virtusertable..."
makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable

echo "Rehashing access database..."
makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access

echo "Restarting sendmail..."
kill -HUP `head -n 1 sendmail.pid`  # (NOT EXACT COMMAND)

------

Now when I make any change, I just call that script. That way it's (a) 
easier and quicker, and (b) less likely that I'll forget to rehash 
something someday. I waste a few CPU cycles rehashing everytime I make a 
change, but hell with it... the server can handle it.

Again, please keep in mind that I'm typing all this from memory. DO NOT USE 
THE COMMAND HERE! Look it up.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx