Restarting sendmail after config change ?

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

I usually do a killall -HUP sendmail; it's ugly but works like a charm... :)


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Of Chris Conn
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 1:41 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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