On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> I've just been reading over the docs for qmail. It says to HUP the server if
> you change any files in the /var/qmail/control directory..
Actually, only locals and virtualdomains; see qmail-send(8). For the
other files read on startup by the long-running daemons you need to shut
down and restart qmail-send:
CONTROL FILES
WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it
starts. If you change the control files, you must stop
and restart qmail-send. Exception: If qmail-send receives
a HUP signal, it will reread locals and virtualdomains.
> What is a safe way to do this?
See the admin FAQ: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/faq/admin.html
> I've got a /etc/init.d/qmail script which doesn't actually work. I know that
> I have to HUP the tcpserver processes and the qmail-smtpd processes, but
> does anyone know exactly what to do?
qmail-smtpd runs fresh for each new connection, and tcpserver doesn't read
any control files. The only long-running part of qmail you need to worry
about notifying or restarting is qmail-send (it takes care of it's support
processes (qmail-clean and qmail-[lr]spawn) for you).
-m
