On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:38:02 -0600 Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mickaël Bucas wrote: > > 2009/12/11 Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>: > > > >> Unix works the way it does precisely so you *don't* require a > >> reboot to use new libraries. They are already there and fully > >> installed and fully operational. You just have to start using them > >> - this may require restarting the relevant app that uses them and > >> perhaps ldconfig. > > > > To find out which files have been replaced, you can use the > > following command : lsof | grep DEL > > This will give you all files that have been deleted since they have > > been loaded by the process. > > >From the process name, you can deduce the service and restart it. > > I've never needed a reboot for this kind of problem. > > You may have to switch to run level 1 to restart some important > > services like udev. > > Actually, you can kill udev and restart it. Kill the process and > then run "/sbin/udevd --daemon" and it will be started again. If you're restarting services yourself instead of switching runlevels to get them all at once, you can still use the initscripts. # /etc/init.d/udev restart -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.
