>#    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.

it would...but it would still be different from the other daemons.
sendmail has (i presume) the difficulty that it can't effectively
erase loaded configuration and load a new one, which is why it execs
itself with the previously used arg list when you hup it.

on the other hand...that certainly is easier.  :)

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