James Carlson wrote: > Only fatal signals from outside of the process contract (if I > understand the documentation correctly) are treated as a special > event. Ones inside the same contract are not. > > That's why doing "pkill sendmail" doesn't work anymore.
Actually, since sendmail also has an event hooks mechanism (.forward files), the sendmail service asks SMF to ignore core files and externally generated signals. pkilling sendmail causes a restart because (usually) all processes in the sendmail service are called sendmail. Dave
