NAME
killsm — kill the sendmail daemon
DESCRIPTION
killsm
reads the pid file to get the pid number
of the currently running
sendmail
daemon, and then kills
that daemon. The pid file is specified using the
PidFile
option in the
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
file. If
this option is not set,
sendmail
uses
/etc/mail/sendmail.pid
file as the default pid file.
If the
sendmail
daemon is not killed instantaneously,
killsm
will not exit until the
sendmail
daemon is terminated or after a time
interval of 10 seconds.
The
``/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop''
command
does the same thing as
killsm.
HP recommends that system administrators use
``/sbin/init.d/sendmail start''
and
``/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop''
to start and stop
sendmail;
these startup scripts are used when the system is booting to start
sendmail.
Advanced system administrators can put
/usr/sbin
into their search path and just reference
``sendmail -bd -q30m''
to start
sendmail,
and
killsm
to stop it.
