If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restarting....Dovecot?
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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
kill -HUP <pid>
=or=
killall -HUP dovecot
On May 14, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Stewart Dean wrote:
If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to
refresh...without killing and restarting....Dovecot?--
Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restarting....Dovecot?
kill -HUP <pid>
=or=
killall -HUP dovecot
Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the same for dovecot?
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Best regards,
Charles Marcus I.T. Director Media Brokers International 678.514.6200 x224 678.514.6299 fax
Duh. I thought I'd tried that and just found that it killed the process...indeed it does the job of refreshing. Sorry.
Charles Marcus wrote:
If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restarting....Dovecot?
kill -HUP <pid>
=or=
killall -HUP dovecot
Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the same for dovecot?
--
Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:39:45 -0400 Charles Marcus CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com wrote:
If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restarting....Dovecot?
kill -HUP <pid>
=or=
killall -HUP dovecot
Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the same for dovecot?
The dovecot init script may well have a reload option which HUPs dovecot.
-- Marshal Newrock Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com
On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:24:36 -0400 Marshal Newrock marshal@idealso.com wrote:
Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the same for dovecot?
The dovecot init script may well have a reload option which HUPs dovecot.
In FreeBSD, all you need to do is add the 'restart' flag to the '/usr/local/etc/rc.d' script.
-- Gerard
"I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating"
Boss Tweed
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Bruce Bodger
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Charles Marcus
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Gerard Seibert
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Marshal Newrock
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Stewart Dean