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From: Tim Baverstock
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:00

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Christoph Rimek (chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote:

: The first line holds the proces ID, the second one repaets the
: command line used to invoke sendmail.

: $ cat -n /var/run/sendmail.pid
: 1: 27731
: 2: sendmail -bd -q15m

: So I have to call
: $ kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

I find myself doing

# echo -n 'kill ' | cat - /etc/sendmail.pid | sh

Which is great to kick sendmail for non-HUPpable changes, 'cos it starts 
right back up again. :)

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From: warwick@weasel.mmm.co.uk (Tim Baverstock)
Subject: Re: logging sendmail with syslogd
Date: 1996/02/19
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