On Sun, 01 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 1 Aug, Steve Youngs wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Isn't it a shame that in all your well composed message you neglected to
> say how one DOES restart a process and avoid the three finger salute?
>
> I mostly lurk on this list to read and learn and today all I've learned
> is that a newbie can be flamed even on a list touted for newbies.
>
>
> --
> Scott Felton
Of related interest is how to kill off a zombie process. This is one of the few
times I *need* to reboot, just to get rid of them. I've had a couple of
instances of gzip going off into never-never land and taking a *lot* of
CPU cycles with it.
This is usually not a great problem, because I routinely shutdown when I'm done
with the computer. But if I kept my system up and running endlessly, I would
eventually run out of processes in a few months. There certainly must be a
quick and easy way to kill zombies, but I just don't know what it is.
--
Arandir...
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