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Subject: Re: What is the best way to shut down and restart sendmail
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 01:23:32 -0600
To: Lorin Lund <wbs @ infowest . com>
Cc: Majordomo-Users <Majordomo-Users @ greatcircle . com>
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If you are running redhat linux 7.x or higher, try

service sendmail restart

That will restart both the sendmail daemon and the queue runner.

Dan Liston

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?




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