On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:28 +0100, Georg Zumstrull wrote to 'Lorin Lund' and...':
> I don't know if I got something wrong here. I never restart sendmail
> after running newaliases, because newaliases is a "shortcut" of
> "sendmail -bi" which initializes the aliases database and "signals" the
> change to all running childs. At least I read the man-pages this way
> (although they don't say something about signals) and it worked so for
> years.
Unless you're running a non-standard compilation of sendmail, there is no
need to stop and restart sendmail after rebuilding the aliases database
with "newaliases" or "sendmail -bi". If I remember correctly the
stop/start was needeed in very early versions of sendmail, but if so that
need went away many years ago.
Along similar lines, there's a common misconception that you need to stop
and restart sendmail after modifying sendmail.cf. Again, this isn't
necessary unless you're running a VERY old version of sendmail. Just
"kill -HUP <sendmail pid>" to load the new configuration.
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