On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Jim Gottlieb wrote:
> Exim does not appear to notice config file changes on its own, and
> requires a HUP. Is this correct? If so, I'd like to request the
And so does every basically every other Unix daemon.
> former behavior be added to the (looong) wish list.
>
> We distribute the configure file by rdist, and it's a royal pain to
> have to then manually log in to every machine to do a kill -HUP. Sure,
> I can write some script that checks to see if it has changed and then
> does a HUP, but it would be nice if exim did this automagically.
> Thanks.
Ugh no... if you are using rdist, presumably you can also do a
"rsh mailhost kill \`cat /var/run/exim.pid\`" (actually I sure hope you
use ssh too). In fact rdist seems to have options to automatically
execute things for this very reason.
Tom
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