From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXzE7-0001Pb-6o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:59:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9CBvhUi004887; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:57:43 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9CBtGWs013655 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:55:17 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E36D4FF for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:55:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id v3MprVSHXMJK for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750CDD501 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:55:14 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:55:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <452C714D.2030008@gt.rr.com> <200610120822.44929.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <452DE3E8.4000708@paulscrap.com> In-Reply-To: <452DE3E8.4000708@paulscrap.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4210575.NMSoX3zEdh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200610120655.34063.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 56a7876a-2cd5-4649-81a6-f1f53404e071 X-Archives-Hash: e12ff74435b196624645857a2ba63344 --nextPart4210575.NMSoX3zEdh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 12 October 2006 01:42, PaulNM wrote=20 about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question': > Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > > It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel > > upgrade requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So > > usually not. > > Just being a bit pedantic here, but what about init? Modern versions of init will watch not only /etc/initab, but also the path= =20 they were started from. If that path is pointed to a different file, it=20 will exec() that file in place. =2D-=20 "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." =2D- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh --nextPart4210575.NMSoX3zEdh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFLi02q72nDbhDXToRAvo6AKCTA6W4KQ8uk/aiRkvMir9Si+o5ngCglSQo hFdQcR5MeKQL7VLuWJNdqI4= =gxpP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4210575.NMSoX3zEdh-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list