Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 11 December 2009 15:16:01 Dale wrote:
Rebooting will also do all of this but it is not needed. From a
technical stand point, the only time you must reboot is to load a new
kernel.
And these days, not even then :-)
[it requires some voodoo but is certainly possible]
[[and I don't mean build and install a new kernel, I really do mean loa ti
into memory and run it, dispensing with the old one]]
I have read about that but never read something from someone who has
actually done it. I have always been curious as to how that would work,
in reality not just theory.
I have also wondered why a person would go to all that trouble.
Wouldn't all the services have to be restarted anyway?
Dale
:-) :-)
