[Cialug] Back to Linux Basics Series

[jim kraai]

so ... back on topic


Ken, I like this.  It's a good start.


--jim




On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Barry Von Ahsen <vonahsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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