On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Andrew Brown wrote:

# but i feel that
# 
#    alias hup 'kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/\!$.pid`'
# 
# would be better, since some things (sendmail, others?) store more than
# just a pid in there.  unless, of course, i'm simply expected to ignore
# the errors that kill gives me from that.

I'm curious as to why sendmail doesn't write it out in the format
pid;
previous-incantation-with-args

That way you could do

eval kill `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`

and it would effectively do a restart.

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