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Alex Bennee wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:13:37PM +0000 :
>
> Rebooting should never be necessary on Linux, thats windows talk. A lot
> of services will re-read config if you send them a SIGHUP (kill -s
> SIGHUP pid). The nuclear option is to restart the service manually
> (/etc/init.d/nfs restart)
There are exceptions, one of which is nfs. If you are on a client that
has mounted an NFS export from the NFS server and the server goes down
and have not specified that it's a soft mount, you might as well reboot
the client.
The other notable exception is if supermount hangs on you. You can
unload the module, you can't see new CD's, you can't do anything with
removable media.
See the pattern here? Anytime a bug causes something to die or hang in
userspace, you just kill it off and restart it. Anytime a bug causes
something to die or hang in kernelspace, the system is at best partially
disabled, most likely unstable and approaching unusable, or at worst
OOPSes and halts.
Blue skies... Todd
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...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious
anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you
will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
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