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On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote: |
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> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> > It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel |
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> > upgrade requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So |
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> > usually not. |
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> Just being a bit pedantic here, but what about init? Even switching |
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> to runlevel 1 would leave it running. Is it possible to tell the |
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> kernel to re-run init, and how? |
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I don't believe so - every attempt i've ever made to kill or restart |
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init causes a kernel panic. |
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It's not init doing this - the same effect is achieved by booting with |
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init=/bin/bash and then exiting that bash |
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alan |
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