how to restart sendmail

jhildebrand · 11-12-2003, 03:52 PM

Silly question, but how do I restart sendmail in slack?

I have just changed over from RH, and I always used service "sendmail restart". Understandably this doesn't work in slack, but how do I do it?

Thanks,

Jeff

trickykid · 11-12-2003, 03:54 PM

/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart

jhildebrand · 11-12-2003, 03:57 PM

thanks.

Jeff

trickykid · 11-12-2003, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by jhildebrand
thanks.

Jeff

No problem.

And just FYI, If you take a peek in the /etc/rc.d directory, you'll notice that's where just about all your scripts are going to be to start, stop and restart most of the main services that were installed during the initial install..

Cheers.

jhildebrand · 11-12-2003, 10:15 PM

Thanks, a great way to learn.

BTW, what does "rc.d" mean? It's a lot easier to learn if you understand why.

jeff

trickykid · 11-12-2003, 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by jhildebrand
Thanks, a great way to learn.

BTW, what does "rc.d" mean? It's a lot easier to learn if you understand why.

jeff

I can't remember off top of my head but I believe it means "run commands" in which most startup scripts or scripts in general are named that as they run commands.

Its possible that the rc.d stands for "runcommands.directory"... not totally sure, just a guess.

h3pc4t · 11-13-2003, 12:09 AM

runcommands.directory is pretty accurate. Usually a .d directory contains scripts that are all run by the same program (and possibly at the same time). For example, /etc/profile.d/ has several scripts that set up your profile.