On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:00:39AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > I'm a little curious as to under exactly what circumstances a reboot > is actually necessary. I know a reboot is necessary to load a new > kernel and that the power inside the box must be off to install or > remove internal hardware --- are there any other times when a reboot > is not optional?
Well, sometimes scsi scanners get finicky and the system needs a reboot. Oh yeah, ps/2 mice. If that comes unplugged, the machine needs a reboot for that to work. Anyone else? :) > For example, you can plug and unplug an idle printer without any > difficulty. I've heard that if you shut down gpm and X and any other > rodent-listening programs you can also change the mouse without any > problems. I'm guessing there's a way to do this with the keyboard or > the monitor, if maybe you could remotely shut down the console or > something. I think you can do an "init 1" to get into single-user and > do single-user things without losing uptime, even repartition a disk > if you're brave. (I might try this in a couple of weeks and thought > it would be a cool thing to tell my winfriends (and also my > unixfriends) that I did without rebooting.) > > I don't intend to try all of these things (I like my peripherals, > thanks). I'm just curious: when is a hardware reboot absolutely > unavoidable? > > Rob > > -- > Eat right, stay fit, and die anyway. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
