[LUNI] Network help please

Keith Garner kgarner at kgarner.com
Mon Nov 18 13:33:11 CST 2002


On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 1:19PM -0600, Fred Yankowski wrote:
> (In my
> experience, changes to resolv.conf are one of the very few situations
> that call for rebooting Linux afterward, as some daemon processes
> won't notice the change otherwise.)

Its true, rebooting will restart all those deamons, but that's like 
using a sledgehammer when a tiny jewelers hammer will do.  You just need 
to restart the deamons, not the whole box.  Often times, this is 
thousands of times faster.

Keith

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Keith T. Garner             kgarner at kgarner.com



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