Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-03-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Mariusz Zielinski wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > > > > want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. > > > > why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions) > > without rebooting... > > When you are using

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-03-04 Thread Mariusz Zielinski
Erik Steffl wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. > > why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions) > without rebooting... When you are using reiserfs you have to :( http://www.namesys.com/

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and there's no need to reboot in this case. > want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions) wit

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Cam, That really sounds like it could be fun! Just thinking here, how to pull off that ... How about using an 'at'command. give yourself 2 minutes to change the kb, at will restart gpm then do it again 2 minutes later so you can see if new stuff works, and if it doesn't gives you time to pl

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:19:28AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > By the way, when you have buggy multi-PC KB switcher, and > > KB goes crazy, restarting gpm also intialize KB nicely. > > > OK, I'll offer a test. I do have a keyboard I want to try, and I don't > want to go

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Cam Ellison
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I agree with Carel. As long as X read from /dev/gpmdata (most sane > configuration but too many people disregards...), reboot is not > needed for KB/mouse initialization. > > I just unplugged my mouse while in X4, replug -- cant move, > restrted gpm to initialize, there I g

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Martin Tanzer
John Galt wrote: --- snip --- > Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a > reboot to do this. Did you reboot after running fdisk when installing > Debian? I definitely have to reboot installing my alphas. I don't know if I had to reboot the machine with the arc-cols

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. > > Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a > reboot to do this. Did you reboot after

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
I agree with Carel. As long as X read from /dev/gpmdata (most sane configuration but too many people disregards...), reboot is not needed for KB/mouse initialization. I just unplugged my mouse while in X4, replug -- cant move, restrted gpm to initialize, there I go again. By the way, when you ha

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > >want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. > > Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a > reboot to do this. Did you reboot after running fdisk when installing > Debian? fdisk

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
Hi, Martin! On Friday 16 February 2001 15:54, "Martin_Tanzer"@dvs-berlin.de wrote: > As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the > hostname and want it active. > The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot... > > martin And not even that is necessary, /pr

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and /etc/init.d/networking restart >want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk re

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:30:11PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > To quote Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > # ... > # > You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See > the > # > recent thread on XFree

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # > You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the # > recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. # # I doubt it. Any trouble I've

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: ... > You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the > recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. I doubt it. Any trouble I've had with PS2 mouses not being properly initialized could

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is # 'hostname'. # # You need to reboot to change the partition table of a disk with mounted # filesystems, and you need to reboot t

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the > hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might > be usefull. You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is 'hostname'. You need to

Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread "Martin_Tanzer"
As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. For the deamons the startscripts redide in /etc/init.d (SuSE/sbin/init.d/) and all accept start, stop, sometimes status, reload, restart. Try it by