-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -D - -- pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7xDReeMAUbzJhSVcRAk38AJ4sEeO4EebJ0XNxv1hPraiVn1Oi5ACfcFsi 4ESaDxx/67kKNQQtbp8TiYI= =1mr8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list