Hey! Did you see what Glen Lee Edwards wrote on Aug 1 ?
GLE> I would like to politely disagree with the 1.5 minute search in finding
Yeah, I'd probably agree with you. It was just a number I plucked out of
the air. The thing is that a lot of people don't even look at all. Now
sometimes it's out of lazines, sometimes it out of ignorance or lack of
knowledge.
GLE> out how to instruct a program to read its new configuration file. As near
GLE> as I can find out there is no one generic way to do this, and the man/info
GLE> pages don't always explain how. Fortunately one or two of the conf files
GLE> include a brief instruction within the file (ref /etc/aliases).
Agreed, sometimes things can be a little cryptic as to how to do
something. But this is one of the down sides of this kind of software
distribution and developement.
GLE> Having come from Windows I find myself strongly tempted to reboot each
GLE> time I make a change. Frankly, Linux reboots faster than it takes me to
GLE> find out how to tell the respective program how to update it's conf
GLE> records.
But once you know how it's a lot quicker to not reboot. And gives you a
warm fuzzy feeling. :-)
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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