On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Virginia Chism wrote:
> I need to learn how to restart qmail on my BSDi system. I have not been
> able to locate a qmail-restart in any of the qmail directories.
>
> Whenever I make changes in qmail, I have had to resort to `shutdown -r now`
> thus rebooting the entire system. I don't like doing this.
>
> Someone told me to try 'killall -SIGHUP qmail', but someone else said this
> might kill everything running - that the machine would not read to the
> 'qmail' at the end of the line.
That is not true, killall only kills the specified command with the
specified signal.
killall -HUP qmail-send
should work.
But i don't think BSDi knows the killall command.
kill -HUP `ps auwx | grep qmail-send | grep -v grep | awk -F" " {'print
$2'}`
(all on 1 line) should also do it.
Or maybe even (if you have bash)
for PID in \
`ps auwx | grep qmail-send | grep -v grep | awk -F" " {'print $2'}`; do \
kill -HUP $PID; done
(not on 1 line but don't miss the backslashes)
Grtz,
Arjen.
