At 4:18 PM -0400 6/9/06, Steven W. Orr wrote: >On Friday, Jun 9th 2006 at 13:04 -0400, quoth Dan: > >=>Steven W. Orr wrote: >=>> I found /sbin/udevstart but there is no udevstop. Can I kill -1 the >running >=>> udevd, or do I kill -9 the udevd followed by a udevstart, or do I have to >=>> reboot? >=>> >=>> TIA >=>> >=>Not certain on this but my gut tells me it'd be bad to kill udev on a >running >=>system. >=>-Dan > >Umm, thanks, but no. udevd is just another userspace process AFAICT. If it >weren't running then the worst that could happen is that some dynamic >device creation would not happen. > >Anyone else on how to restart? Run /sbin/start_udev? It seems to kill udevd before starting udevd. It's run by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, which is run by /etc/inittab for si. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
