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On Wednesday 10 October 2001 02:46 am, Andrew Smith wrote:
> > Helo.
> >
> > Type this:
> >
> > makemap hash /etc/mail/access </etc/mail/access
> >
> > /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
> >

> OK,
> I'll be a bit more specific.
> Is there a specific interrupt or command to get sendmail to JUST
> reread the access.db file (or does sendmail notice when the file
> changes and thus you don't need to do anything)
> I was actually trying to avoid stopping and restarting sendmail and
> thus hoping there was a less obtrusive way to do it (but couldn't
> find anything in "man sendmail" or /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf)
> OR an interupt that re-reads all the config files if you can't just
> do access.db
>
> P.S. you can also type "cd /etc/mail ; make" to rebuild access.db :-)

'service sendmail restart' rebuilds the databases on it's own. It is not 
necessary to run make manually.
As for your initial question, I believe you must restart sendmail to 
reread the database.

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