Jeff Abrahamson on Wed, 24 May 2000 10:08:27 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] sendmail


On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:00:48AM -0400, Michael Whitman wrote:
> i have just began to play with sendmail, i am running it on a server with a 
> fixed ip
> 
> how do I restart sendmail?
> 
> i kill the pid, but when I type
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
> it says recipient names must be specified.

True enough. You probably want to administer sendmail via the init
script. On my system, that's /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail and takes
arguments of start, stop, restart, and status.

Sendmail's pretty complicated to interact with. Get yourself a copy of
the bat book (O'Reilly, has a bat on the cover) if you want to learn
enough to invoke sendmail by yourself.


> also another question... when I try to exit su it says there are stopped 
> jobs (as a result of my messing with sendmail I am sure)
> 
> what do i do about that?

Type "jobs" to find out what they are. Then either push them in the
background (via "bg" in most shells) or kill them as seems
appropriate.

-- 
 Jeff Abrahamson
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