Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2003 21:12:23 +0100 | | From | Tomas Szepe <> | | Subject | Re: how to restart userland? |
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On Nov-03 2003, Mon, 15:03 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:39:40 +0100, Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> said: > > Would anyone know of a proven way to completely restart the userland > > of a Linux system? > > This would be distinct from 'shutdown -r' how?
No reboot.
> Is there a reason you want to "completely" restart userland and *not* > reboot (for instance, wanting to keep existing mounts, etc)?
Extensive userland upgrades (glibc is a nice example I guess), etc.
> A case could be made that for a "complete" restart, you need to trash > those mounts too (if you're restarting to get a 'clean' setup, you want > to actually be clean), and so forth.
Right.
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