Restarting sendmail after config change ?

[James R. Stevens]

Within RedHat you will use the MAKEMAP command to reload and database
into memory without restarting Sendmail/Mailscanner.

Example:
Cli->makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access 
Would reload the access table after any changes. This would be based on
a hash database. 

Something similar would be used for the virtusertable depending on the
type of database.

Hope that helps..

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Conn [mailto:cconn at ABACOM.COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:41 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Restarting sendmail after config change ?

Richard Curtis wrote:
> I am writing a script for adding hosted domains to our server.
> When I add a hosted domain, I need to add it to the sendmails
virtusertable
> and local-host-names.
>
> I have tried to use /etc/init.d/MailScanner reload but this does not
> rebuild
> the virtusertable.db file.
>
> What is the correct way to do this ?
>
on my redhats, I have a script that does this:

make -C /etc/mail
kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.in.pid`

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