Bug 77215

Summary:	Qmail howto should mention restarting qmail when changing settings
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Aquila <bart.braem>
Component:	Virtual-mail HOWTO	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	docs-team, qmail-bugs+disabled
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Aquila 2005-01-09 04:22:26 UTC

The warning in chapter 2 states that it's necessary to change some control files when qmail gives errors. However it doesn't say that qmail should be restarted after the changes. Sounds trivial but if you forget everything is a lot more difficult...


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to following the warning message literally
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Actual Results:  
qmail wasn't restarted so the error stays

Expected Results:  
replacing "Once you have, edit the configuration files in /var/qmail/control/. " 
with "Once you have, edit the configuration files in /var/qmail/control/ and 
restart qmail with /etc/init.d/svscan restart." seems usefull to me.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-01-09 12:11:59 UTC

most of the control files are read upon every invocation of qmail so i dont think restarting them is required

i'll double check though

Comment 2 Jaco Kroon 2005-01-11 03:21:49 UTC

There should be no need to reload qmail - you should only need to restart when you  actually upgrade.  There are the odd exception here and there but I've never had any problems.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-04-23 22:54:56 UTC

shouldnt need to restart qmail