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Subject: Re: What is the best way to shut down and restart sendmail
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks @ sage-american . com>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:50:28 -0600
To: Lorin Lund <wbs @ infowest . com>,Majordomo-Users <Majordomo-Users @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <3E4422D2.2000908@infowest.com>

At 02:19 PM 2.7.2003 -0700, Lorin Lund wrote:
>After updating aliases, after running newaliases, I still need to shut 
>sendmail down and
>restart it.  Is there a 'polite' way to do that?  Or is there a way to 
>signal sendmail to reload
>the aliases?
>
>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?
>

While in /etc/mail, just run:
# make restart

Then, look at /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages and you should see it
logged.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

Sage American
http://www.sage-american.com
jacks@sage-american.com


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