I would like to politely disagree with the 1.5 minute search in finding
out how to instruct a program to read its new configuration file. As near
as I can find out there is no one generic way to do this, and the man/info
pages don't always explain how. Fortunately one or two of the conf files
include a brief instruction within the file (ref /etc/aliases).
Having come from Windows I find myself strongly tempted to reboot each
time I make a change. Frankly, Linux reboots faster than it takes me to
find out how to tell the respective program how to update it's conf
records.
Glen
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
> Hey! Did you see what David Krings wrote on Jul 31 ?
>
> DK> >> Even better. I rebooted.
> DK> >>
> DK> ><snipped double quoted>
> DK> >Pah! You come from Windows, don't you :-)
> DK> >Like someone says in his/her sig:
> DK> >"You have moved the mouse.
> DK> >Windows has to be rebooted for the changes to take effect..."
> DK>
> DK> Then i wonder why there is any reboot option in Linux if it is the most
> DK> fatal error a Linux user can do - i thought Linux is bugless. ;)
>
> You thought wrong dude. No one ever said Linux was "bugless"
> Perhaps you are confusing bugless with robust, stable, superior to
> anything that ever came out of Redmond... :-)
>
> The reboot functionality of Linux is there for three reasons...
>
> 1 - To install new hardware.
> 2 - To upgrade the kernel
> 3 - For the people who can't bear to let go of Microsoft's apron-strings
>
> Not once have I had to reboot because I installed a new program/package or
> because I tweeked or re-configured something (apart from a kernel).
>
> Generally I find that people who constantly reboot Linux are people who
> try to do Linux things the Windoze way, and because it is easier than
> finding out how to do it the Linux way. Rather than spending 1.5 minutes
> finding out how to make a process re-read it's configuration they will
> spend 3 minutes re-booting.
>
> Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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