Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
> if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it > prompts for > the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel 2. that will > effectivly > restart all programs on the system except (i think) init, and of course > the > kernel. > > restarting programs really depends on

Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
For my (little home) servers, I always try a reboot after I installed something regarding to the things it serves. If something goes wrong (power failure, accicent, etc) I know that the vital parts work directly 100% after reboot. As for my client/workstation system, I have to reboot when I need t

Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
SamBozo Debian User wrote: > I KNOW THIS is NOT the proper way to do things with Linux ... > but how else do you know? > Please tell me? > I'll change my evil ways... if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it prompts for the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runle