Gene Tsygan wrote: > > Hi, everybody! > According to materials I read, one of the great things about Linux is that > it does not need to be rebooted in order to apply configuration changes. > Stopping and restarting the affected services is adequate. Can you tell me > how to do it? What should I type to stop and restart services like httpd, > smbd, etc. > One thing I tried which works sometimes is to log in again as root. Run the command ps ax. This gives a list of all running processes, each of which has a PID number (Process Id) When you decide what you want to stop, type kill <pid number>. Type the actual number with no quotes, like kill 247. Hope this helps. Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]