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Subject: Re: What is the best way to shut down and restart sendmail
From: "Doug Young" <dougy @ brizzie . org>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:48:36 +1000
To: "Lorin Lund" <wbs @ infowest . com>,"Majordomo-Users" <Majordomo-Users @ greatcircle . com>
References: <3E4422D2.2000908@infowest.com>


> When I look at my 'ps' output it looks like there are two instances of
> sendmail running.
> One says 'accepting connections'
> The other says 'queue runner' (among other things).
> Do they both need to be shut down to have the alias changes take effect?
>
>
In theory its possible but I've found it unreliable .... what does work
everytime is killing the 'accepting connections' process & then running
something like 'sendmail -bd -q30m'. If paranoid, check that sendmail has
actually re-started & is accepting connections again.



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