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 1GXv7V-00069m-7G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:36:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9C7XhgG025416; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:33:43 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9C7UM11032725 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:30:23 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838DC83464 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:34:41 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fQWrd2rhjK9f for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:34:36 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0D583468 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:33:49 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:31:24 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:30:30 +0200 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> 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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610120930.30718.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Oct 2006 07:31:24.0906 (UTC) FILETIME=[6C16ECA0:01C6EDD0] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9C7UM11032725 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9C7Xhgi025416 X-Archives-Salt: f8fa159c-75f2-4de5-ad15-314ec1055a90 X-Archives-Hash: a4af3d37a975b7bc799de0c8ef80834f On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote: > 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? Even switching > to runlevel 1 would leave it running. Is it possible to tell the > kernel to re-run init, and how? I don't believe so - every attempt i've ever made to kill or restart=20 init causes a kernel panic. It's not init doing this - the same effect is achieved by booting with=20 init=3D/bin/bash and then exiting that bash alan --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list