Author: Trevor Sky Garside Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] any way to enable auth from the command line?
| 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..
So, a HUP is not costly at all? In other words, if I hup the service every
5 minutes or so, will it hurt performance terribly?