FreeBSD has moved to a SysV init. /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart - at least in FreeBSD 5.4
in older versions just take a trip to /etc/mail and type "make restart", that makefile is quite useful for sendmail tasks This still works in 5.4 btw. -- Jason Fried churchofbsd.org bsdjihad.org On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:45:56 -0500 > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] BSD > > Yes, FreeBSD is definitely moving toward SysV init. And yes, > /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail is SysV-ish. :) > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "-ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:23 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] BSD > > >> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Fernando Vilas wrote: >> >>> By "mucking through" the rc files, did you perhaps mean >>> /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart ? At least that's where slack has had it >>> for several years. Not trying to start a flame war here, but isn't it the >>> same thing? >> >> Not trying to start a flame war either, and yes it is the same thing. But >> an rc.d/rc.sendmail restart script seems very very SysV-like to me. I >> haven't used slack since 1997 or so, maybe they adopted some SysV stuff? >> I was mainly talking about FreeBSD and OpenBSD. >> >>> Now for some of the networking stuff, I can see your point. the easiest >>> thing to do is to learn to use ifconfig and iwconfig from the command >>> line. >> >> ifconfig works, but gets more complicated when you have multiple >> interfaces. You have to lookup which interface, find the old ip, netmask, >> broadcast, static routes, etc etc. Further complicated when you have >> multiple ip aliases and many vlan interfaces. It's way too much room for >> human error and typo's. A typo while changing the network remotely is >> disastrous. I don't like typing, it's error prone and slows you down. I'd >> rather changed the init script and let the system do the typing...it >> doesn't make typo's. >> >> ray >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
