Restarting sendmail after config change ?

[William Burns]

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Richard:

Watch out!
The previously posted example below looks to me like it overwrites your
access file!
A "fixed" version is here:

> makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access



On RedHat systems all you would need to do is type:
 > cd /etc/mail
 > make access.db
or
 > make virtusertable.db

No "restart" is needed.

If you're on a non-RedHat distro and there's no Makefile in the
/etc/mail directory, here's mine.

> # These could be used by sendmail, but are not part of the default
> install.
> # To use them you will have to generate your own sendmail.cf with
> #  FEATURE('whatever')
> #
> POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f bitdomain     && echo bitdomain.db)
> POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f uudomain      && echo uudomain.db)
> POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f genericstable && echo genericstable.db)
> POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f userdb        && echo userdb.db)
> CFFILES   = sendmail.cf submit.cf
>
>
> all: ${CFFILES} ${POSSIBLE} virtusertable.db access.db domaintable.db
> mailertable.db
>
> userdb.db : userdb
>         @makemap btree $@ < $<
>
> %.db : %
>         @makemap hash $@ < $<
>
> %.cf : %.mc
>         @if test -f /usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4; then \
>                 mv -f $@ $@.bak; \
>                 m4 $< > $@; \
>         fi;
>
> clean:
>         rm -f *.db *~



-Bill

James R. Stevens wrote:

>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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