On Friday, Jun 9th 2006 at 13:04 -0400, quoth Dan:
=>Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> I found /sbin/udevstart but there is no udevstop. Can I kill -1 the running =>> udevd, or do I kill -9 the udevd followed by a udevstart, or do I have to =>> reboot? =>> =>> TIA =>> =>Not certain on this but my gut tells me it'd be bad to kill udev on a running =>system. =>-Dan
Umm, thanks, but no. udevd is just another userspace process AFAICT. If it weren't running then the worst that could happen is that some dynamic device creation would not happen.
Anyone else on how to restart?