Edouard Boucher wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:28:49PM +0200, Nico Erfurth wrote:
>
>>>>>i have an exim runing wating for incomming connection.
>>>>>if i kill it to reload it, i suppose i might loose some important mail.
>>>>>
>>>>>but sometimes (at rare occasion), i need to update some conf,
>>>>>so you would say : kill -HUP exim_pid so exim never stop runing.
>>>>>but how about if I have to update macro def, instead of the conf file
>>>>>itself, i.e: change the value of MACRO_NAME that i have set with exim
>>>>>-DMACRO_NAME
>>>>
>>>>You will not loose mail when your exim-server is down for some seconds,
>>>>if another server tries to send a mail in this moment it should defer
>>>>the mail and try to resend it later.
>>>
>>>ok, but is there a way to re def macro without exiting exim ?
>>>i would be a much more cleaner way then stopping exim and reloading
>>
>>AFAIK not, but i don't see a point in doing something like that.
>>do you change your macros all the time?
>
>
> no, but i was just curious,
> because apache can do that,
> so i was wondering if exim could.
Apache can redefine macros when you send it a HUP?
Don't think so ;)
