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Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....



To quote William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org>,
# On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 Martin_Tanzer@dvs-berlin.de wrote:
# You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either.  The command
is
# 'hostname'.
# 
# You need to reboot to change the partition table of a disk with
mounted
# filesystems, and you need to reboot to recompile the kernel, and you
need
# to reboot for hardware upgrades.  That's about it, really...

You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the
recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse.

David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
    Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)



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