From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 18:42:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19178 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19031 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA17013; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:39:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id VAA27817; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:39:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id VAA03973; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:39:44 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:39:44 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: Greg Lehey cc: Francisco Reyes , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to reset FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <19981012094800.J24503@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 11 October 1998 at 19:42:50 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: > >> On 11-Oct-98 BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > >>> Apart from a reboot, how can I restart the system? > >> > >> What do you mean by "restart" the system? > >> What did you mean by reboot? The reboot command? > >> You can "halt" the system and then turn off the computer or press any key > >> for a reboot. > >> > >> man: shutdown, halt, reboot > > > > I mean restarting the ttys, re-reading rc.local, etc. But not rebooting! > > No morre than halting the system. Keeping process running (like ppp) would > > be nice also... > > If you want to re-read /etc/rc.local, do: > > # . /etc/rc.local > > But you need to understand what you're doing first. In most cases, > you can restart individual processes or configure interfaces without > resorting to that kind of blanket measure. What are you really trying > to do? In particular, I had problems with ppp. Trying to bind a socket to and address was giving me "address already in use" by bind. What deamon or process is responsible for this? Apart from this, I once needed to restart the ttys... Also, when I drop single-user (kill 1), I can't get back to mutli-user mode... This must be an easy one although. When I exit the /bin/sh shell it tries to mount drives,and I get "device busy"s, but I can't umount them... Thanks! +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message