Re: [cobalt-users] Suspending users & sites

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Rob Evans wrote:

> 
> ----- 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.
> 

AFAIK you're correct, and it's not necessary to restart sendmail for that.
Although I was only giving a *way* of doing that easier, I didn't suggest
this has to be done at all :-)

- shimi.