Nice reload of config with sendmail
Arthur Sherman
arturs at netvision.net.il
Wed Jul 12 18:14:55 IST 2006
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the less disturbing way to reload the
> MS/Sendmail config on a
> > server?
> >
> > send a HUP to all sendmail process, then do a
> '/etc/init.d/MailScanner
> > reload'?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ugo
>
> "init 6" usually does the trick ;)
>
> Personally, I just HUP the MS parent[1] (which kills all the
> kids before
> spawning a new brood of rug-rats) and "killall -HUP sendmail". I put
> all that in a bash script and dumped it in /root/bin/mail-reload.sh
>
> Cant reach that network ATM otherwise I'd send you a copy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
Could you post it here?
I would like to see it.
thanks
Best,
--
Arthur Sherman
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