Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:59:55 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1042412396.08150c@mired.org> To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleted VAR Message-ID: <15899.23531.427577.505545@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20030107224636.GA7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <DAV28b3F45qHjDv4IiK00000142@hotmail.com> <15899.5780.980725.387591@guru.mired.org> <DAV62wRFzYPKmnXdv240000e5e6@hotmail.com> <15899.8300.60339.429750@guru.mired.org> <20030107200941.F63741@slave.east.ath.cx> <15899.11387.156085.303405@guru.mired.org> <20030107203858.B63741@slave.east.ath.cx> <15899.18469.466733.558236@guru.mired.org> <20030107224636.GA7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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In <20030107224636.GA7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>, Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> typed: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:35:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <20030107203858.B63741@slave.east.ath.cx>, Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> typed: > <snip> > > Right. Restarting a single process is easy. It's finding all the ones > > that might need restarting that's the problem. > > Note that "killall -1 sshd" will log out any users logged in via sshd. > Does `fstat | grep var` give you what you are looking for? On some machines, yes. On others, no. I agree that there's seldom a reason to reboot. I happen to think that having screwed up /var royally and wanting to make sure that everything is ok afterwards is one of them. Sure, you don't have to reboot to do that - but that's the easiest method of being sure you've got everything. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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