On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     Is there some way to automatically restart a service when a configuration
> file changes?  I know I can do it manually, but I'm looking for an automatic
> way of doing it.  Basically we have two mail servers that share one particular
> config file (a third party file).  Generally one of the servers will get the
> changes made to its config file, and then the file gets scp-ed over to the
> second server.  I need some way for that second server to then restart sendmail
> when it detects a change in the config file (possibly through the file time
> stamp).  Right now I'm manually logging onto that second server to restart
> sendmail so it takes up the new config file.  I'd like it to do it by itself.
> Suggestions?

Why don't you have the script that does the scp follow that command with a
"ssh remoteserver restart_command" ?

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