On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:44:14PM +0800, Cheong Ket Vin wrote:
> From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <linux@???>
>>> # exiwhat
>>> 16412 daemon: -q1h, listening for SMTP
>>> is this what i should do to restart the exim ?
>> The first number there is pid of the exim parent process.
>> You have to kill -HUP that process-id to restart exim.
> basic unix question again ...
> how to kill -HUP the id ? kill -HUP 16412 ?
Yes.
> and how to start it back after killing it? just type exim ?
You do not need to, HUP does not terminate/kill exim.
| The SIGHUP signal can be used to cause the daemon to re-exec itself.
| This should be done whenever Exim's configuration file, or any file
| that is incorporated into it by means of the ".include" facility,
| is changed, and also whenever a new version of Exim is installed.
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