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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What magic does portage use?
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:43:54
Message-Id: 20091211114056.5ad79a0b@bellgrove.remarqs.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use? by Dale
1 On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:38:02 -0600
2 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Mickaël Bucas wrote:
5 > > 2009/12/11 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>:
6 > >
7 > >> Unix works the way it does precisely so you *don't* require a
8 > >> reboot to use new libraries. They are already there and fully
9 > >> installed and fully operational. You just have to start using them
10 > >> - this may require restarting the relevant app that uses them and
11 > >> perhaps ldconfig.
12 > >
13 > > To find out which files have been replaced, you can use the
14 > > following command : lsof | grep DEL
15 > > This will give you all files that have been deleted since they have
16 > > been loaded by the process.
17 > > >From the process name, you can deduce the service and restart it.
18 > > I've never needed a reboot for this kind of problem.
19 > > You may have to switch to run level 1 to restart some important
20 > > services like udev.
21 >
22 > Actually, you can kill udev and restart it. Kill the process and
23 > then run "/sbin/udevd --daemon" and it will be started again.
24
25 If you're restarting services yourself instead of switching runlevels
26 to get them all at once, you can still use the initscripts.
27
28 # /etc/init.d/udev restart
29
30 --
31 »Q«
32 Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.

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