Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (668 mails)

[mantel@xxxxxxx (Hubert Mantel)]

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Michael Perry wrote:

> > Well try /etc/rc.config and edit FROM_HEADER="" to FROM_HEADER="mperry@xxxxxxxxx"
> > That's another option to try at least.
> 
> YES!!!!  Thanks Dee.  Much appreciated.  I had only to include the stuff
> to the right of the @.  Time for a beer.  One thing, when I run
> /sbin/SuSEconfig, it does not make the change but I have to reboot the
> system to get the FROM_HEADER change included.  Is this a normal thing?
> Just call me curious.  I thot that SuSEconfig was dynamic.

Yes it is dynamic. But sometimes the configuration of a running process
is modified, and so this process needs to get notified about the changes.
In this particular case, a "/sbin/init.d/sendmail reload" would have done
the job, as sendmail didn't know that it's configuration had changed.

Generally it is never necessary to reboot the system due to a change. If
you modify your /etc/exports, you need to notify the NFS server that its
configuration has changed ("/sbin/init.d/nfsserver stop;
/sbin/init.d/nfsserver start" - oh, here we should add the "reload"
feature which does exactly the same).

If you want to be on the safe side, you could switch the system into
runlevel 1 and back to runlevel 2 or 3 ("init 1" and "init 2"). But
normally only some daemon needs to be restarted or notified when its
configuration changed.

> --Michael Perry--
> mperry@xxxxxxxxx

    Hubert


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