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In article <62v6T2voo$B@rimki.toppoint.de>, chrimek (chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote:

> > [...]
> > dont forget to give SIGHUP i.e,
> >
> > kill -HUP `cat syslog.pid`
>
> I don't know how Linux handles this, but my sendmail 8.6.12 on a
> NetBSD 1.1 machine has a two-lines file /var/run/sendmail.pid.
> 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`
        ^^^^^^^

Oh, my mistake, I do not use HUP but KILL signals for this.
Mr. Soren Dayton told (mailed) me that sendmail 8.6.12 does not accept
HUP signals.

The short script I use to restart sendmail follows:
(/usr/local/sbin/restart_sendmail)

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#!/bin/sh
#
# restart sendmail daemon
# 07-feb-96 (chrimek)

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
PIDFILE=/var/run/sendmail.pid

if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]; then
        echo "Error: No file $PIDFILE found, cannot continue."
        echo "       Maybe sendmail daemon not running at all ?"
        echo ""
        exit 1
fi

SM_PID=`head -1 $PIDFILE`
SM_CMD=`tail -1 $PIDFILE`

echo -n "Terminate running sendmail ...."
kill -KILL $SM_PID && rm -f $PIDFILE
sleep 3

echo -n " and restarting new daemon"
eval $SM_CMD
echo "."
sleep 3

echo "New sendmail process ID= `head -1 $PIDFILE`."
exit 0
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The sleep statements are nessessary !
-cr

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