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.

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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
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>
>> 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
>> 
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