HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

killsm(1M) killsm(1M)

NAME

killsm - kill the sendmail daemon

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/killsm

DESCRIPTION

killsm reads the /etc/mail/sendmail.pid

ﬁle to ﬁnd the pid number of the currently running

sendmail daemon, and then kills that daemon. The ‘‘

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

’’ command does

the same thing.

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.

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.

The previous

sendmail -bk option of former releases is no longer supported.