[TriLUG] Re: sendmail restarting after being stopped

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On 25 Apr 2003, at 5:04pm, jonc at nc.rr.com wrote:
> In my class on Sendmail I always tell folks to do a "ps aux |grep send"
> right after issuing the "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop".  You can then
> kill off each of the sub-processes.

  "killall sendmail" works well on Linux systems.

  NOTE WELL: On some non-Linux systems, "killall" does not take a name, but
rather, kills every running process.

"Typing 'killall name' may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems,
 especially when done by a privileged user." -- killall(1) man page

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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