From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 14:59:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660A937B405 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:59:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A43443E4A for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:59:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1042412396.08150c@mired.org) Received: (qmail 1973 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 22:59:56 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 22:59:56 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15899.23531.427577.505545@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:59:55 -0600 To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleted VAR In-Reply-To: <20030107224636.GA7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <15899.5780.980725.387591@guru.mired.org> <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> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.67 (Whirlaway) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030107224636.GA7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>, Nathan Kinkade typed: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:35:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <20030107203858.B63741@slave.east.ath.cx>, Andrew Prewett typed: > > > 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. 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