Re: [exim] Graceful Restart?

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Chris.Knadle
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Graceful Restart?


Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 20:12, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Does Exim have some kind of a graceful restart option so that I could
>> change the config files without killing all the current processes? If it
>> doesn't have this I'd like to suggest it. HTTPD has it and it's nice.
>>
>
>    Um, what kind of system are you running Exim on?

>
>    On {some|many|most} systems the init script allows for a graceful restart 
> by running '/etc/init.d/exim4 reload', which I believe simply does a 'kill 
> -1' [same as 'kill -HUP'] on the daemon.  I think it should be the same on 
> most *nix systems.

>
>     - Chris

>

It appeas that reload and restart runs the same code.