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.