[Cialug] Back to Linux Basics Series

[Barry Von Ahsen]

or init 1 then exit - as close to a reboot as possible while maintaining uptime 

ken, mark me down for a history of *nix presentation


-barry



On Sep 26, 2013, at 10:14 PM, "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> On 2013-09-26 at 21:15:08 Aaron wrote:
>>> Reboots are for hardware upgrades.
>> 
>> Unless this is sarcasm or somehow a wishful statement, I disagree with
>> it. Many a time I've had to reboot to some how get a piece of
>> software to work. This is of course mostly having to do with a X
>> server or other X related change. But given what it is and does, can
>> we avoid it?
> 
> To avoid a reboot, switch to a text-mode terminal and restart X. If the 
> video driver is having issues so that switching to a terminal is not 
> possible, then SSH in from another machine, kill X, unload the video 
> driver, reload the video driver, and start X.
> 
> The only times you should *have* to reboot are for hardware upgrades and 
> kernel updates. Sometimes it is easier just to reboot, but if you have 
> the time to figure out how to avoid rebooting you might learn something 
> useful. Half of what i know about the init system is probably from 
> digging around trying to figure out what things to restart so as to 
> avoid a reboot.
> 
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