topic Re: restart the service in Operating System - Linux

restart the service

juno2 — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:56:20 GMT

I would like to restart the some services, can I restart the service seperately eg . network services only , the system service only ? thx

Re: restart the service

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:03:32 GMT

service network restart

service syslog restart

That is the syntax and it works.

SEP

Re: restart the service

juno2 — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:14:15 GMT

Thx protter, another question, when I restart the sendmail service - it pop up the below message

Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]

, the sendmail seems failure now , what can i do? thx.

Re: restart the service

Stuart Browne — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 22:29:06 GMT

You'll notice that it's failing to 'stop' the service (for one reason or another).

The 'sm-client' part of sendmail is a separate sendmail daemon which is listed in the process list as 'sendmail: Queue runner@1:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue' (by default atleast). This is governed by the '/etc/mail/submit.cf' file.

Make sure it's running, then try to 'stop' the service, see if it's still running, and if you get an error on the stop. If you did, you might want to check the submit.cf and what changes have been made to it.