On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Patrice Fournier wrote:
> Quoting Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@???>:
>
> > ########### IMPORTANT ########## IMPORTANT ########### IMPORTANT
> > #
> > # Whenever you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* remember to
> > # HUP the Exim daemon, because it will not pick up the new configuration
> > # until you do. It is usually a good idea to test a new configuration
> for
> > # syntactic correctness before installing it (for example, by running
> the
> > # command "exim -C /config/file -bV").
> > #
> > ########### IMPORTANT ########## IMPORTANT ########### IMPORTANT
>
> Maybe you want to change this to warn about Exim reloading itself to do
> many tasks and thus reading the new config file at times. There are
> deamons I change the config file and wait before HUPing them because I
> want them to keep the old config for a certain time, this wouldn't work
> with Exim (depending of the config change of course), need to make change
> to a second file and move it when ready.
Good point.
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