killsm.1m (2010 09)

killsm(1M) killsm(1M)

NAME

killsm - kill the sendmail daemon

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/killsm

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 dae-

mon 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.