On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:
> | On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:29:56AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> | >
> | > Unless you are running with a low security setting, the daemon is going
> | > to re-exec Exim every time a message arrives, in order to start the
> | > delivery (unless you have queue_only set). Every time Exim execs, it
> | > reads the file.
> |
>
> Are you saying that each time Exim is called on port 25 for an incoming
> email, it will re-read the conf file? I would like for that to be the case,
> but it is not doing that on my system. Invoking it from the command line
> reads the file each time, but I have to HUP the daemon to cause it to
> re-read. The reason I ask is because I would like to be able to add/remove
> domains from the local_domains line on a regular basis. I'm always wary of
> restarting services, as this is usually somewhat costly (processor and time
> wise). How is it with Exim?
You dont have to restart exim, you can send it a HUP and it will just
re-read the config file..
>
> Thanks
>
> Trevor Sky Garside
> trevor@???
>
>
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