sendmail problem 2

[telemorgan]

This might be an easy one for you guys... The ip address of our company's mail server recently changed. I changed the ip address in the sendmail.cf file, however I'm getting a error while trying to send mail out still. Do I have to restart the sendmail deamon to pick up the new address? If so, how?

Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi. It's possible you may have to restart:

/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/init.d/sendmail start

Hope this helps.





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[telemorgan]

OK, thanks Ken.

After some investigation it turns out that the DNS addresses were changed as well. I edited the resolv.conf file, however do I need to stop and restart a DNS service of some kind to pick up the changes? Also, if I do restart this service will it kill all of the users connections to the server?

Thanks

 

[GunnarD]

No need to restart anything if you change something in resolv.conf.

 

[KenCunningham]

Gunnar is quite right. Strange how often people change DNS addresses without telling the people who need to know these things!

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[telemorgan]

Thanks Guys, all is back to normal. As you said, I didn't need to restart anything except the sendmail deamon for the relay ip address change.

 

[KenCunningham]

Excellent - and thanks for the star!

I want to be good, is that not enough?