Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-03-04 Thread Mariusz Zielinski
Erik Steffl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions) without rebooting... When you are using reiserfs you have to :(

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-03-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Mariusz Zielinski wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions) without rebooting... When you are using reiserfs you have

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:27:55AM -0800, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: SamBozo Debian User wrote: Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys try

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-20 Thread John Foster
William Leese wrote: On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any suggestions anyone? it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated code) that handles nested tables well.. and yes

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
William Leese wrote: On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Actually, I don't understand the part about if i had a server. If you've got a Linux box, you can run Apache and any one of several DB's on it, and test out your pages locally. replace that with if i had

WYSIWYG HTML Editor was Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote: mmm, i'll give it a try. Just hope someone will come along with a good WYSIWYS-editor for linux (GPL-ed.. ofcourse, unlike Bluefish) some time. Give Amaya a tryout, done by the w3 folks. Amaya's really good... it's got

Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor was Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Steve
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Richard Taylor wrote: Nothing in opensource is going to be close to DreamWeaver of course -yet anyways. That depends on whether you hand write your code or let a wysiwyg editor approximate it for you. Most pros will tell you that the only proper code is hand

Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor was Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Richard Taylor wrote: Nothing in opensource is going to be close to DreamWeaver of course -yet anyways. That depends on whether you hand write your code or let a wysiwyg editor approximate it for you. Most pros will tell you that the

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
William Leese wrote: heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as someone already said installing a new kernel.. but

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and there's no need to reboot in this case. want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. why? you can create filesystems and mount/unmount disks (partitions)

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-19 Thread William Leese
On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any suggestions anyone? it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated code) that handles nested tables well.. and yes i know they shouldnt be

WYSIWYG HTML Editor was Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-18 Thread Steve
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote: snip mmm, i'll give it a try. Just hope someone will come along with a good WYSIWYS-editor for linux (GPL-ed.. ofcourse, unlike Bluefish) some time. Give Amaya a tryout, done by the w3 folks. Nothing in opensource is going to be close to DreamWeaver

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
I agree with Carel. As long as X read from /dev/gpmdata (most sane configuration but too many people disregards...), reboot is not needed for KB/mouse initialization. I just unplugged my mouse while in X4, replug -- cant move, restrted gpm to initialize, there I go again. By the way, when you

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a reboot to do this. Did you reboot after

HDDs (Re: Rebooting is foolish .... )

2001-02-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:41:04 +0100, William Leese writes: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? I use

Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
For my (little home) servers, I always try a reboot after I installed something regarding to the things it serves. If something goes wrong (power failure, accicent, etc) I know that the vital parts work directly 100% after reboot. As for my client/workstation system, I have to reboot when I need

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Martin Tanzer
John Galt wrote: --- snip --- Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a reboot to do this. Did you reboot after running fdisk when installing Debian? I definitely have to reboot installing my alphas. I don't know if I had to reboot the machine with the

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Cam Ellison
Osamu Aoki wrote: I agree with Carel. As long as X read from /dev/gpmdata (most sane configuration but too many people disregards...), reboot is not needed for KB/mouse initialization. I just unplugged my mouse while in X4, replug -- cant move, restrted gpm to initialize, there I go

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:19:28AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: ... By the way, when you have buggy multi-PC KB switcher, and KB goes crazy, restarting gpm also intialize KB nicely. OK, I'll offer a test. I do have a keyboard I want to try, and I don't want to go through

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
I have crashed my share of drives too. What I learned is that I get the very best luck out of Western Digital. Of all the WD drives, I only killed one - and that was purely my fault - 1500Watts of RF without benefit of an RF ground = bad/evil/smoke producing things to computers :) Yet WD

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Cam, That really sounds like it could be fun! Just thinking here, how to pull off that ... How about using an 'at'command. give yourself 2 minutes to change the kb, at will restart gpm then do it again 2 minutes later so you can see if new stuff works, and if it doesn't gives you time to

Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it prompts for the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel 2. that will effectivly restart all programs on the system except (i think) init, and of course the kernel. restarting programs really depends on the

Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys that would have accomplished this? Are there different ones for different config files? SHUP something? blabla

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
SamBozo Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys that would have accomplished this? Are there different ones for different config files? SHUP something?

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: SamBozo Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys that would have accomplished this? Are there different ones

Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Martin_Tanzer
] on 16.02.2001 15:37:06 An: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Kopie: (Blindkopie: Martin Tanzer/dvs/DE) Blindkopie:Martin Tanzer/dvs/DE Thema: Rebooting is foolish Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
SamBozo Debian User wrote: Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. Similar experience here at work with a Sun Sparc we had... moved

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William Leese
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Nate Amsden wrote: try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. fucking

Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Nate Amsden wrote: try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. nate I Have had a simular experience

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
William Leese wrote: heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as someone already said installing a new kernel.. but

Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
SamBozo Debian User wrote: I KNOW THIS is NOT the proper way to do things with Linux ... but how else do you know? Please tell me? I'll change my evil ways... if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it prompts for the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William Leese
back in 1995(last time that i used seagate) i had 2 conner 420MB drives and 1 seagate 540 (and now they are the same company *shudder*) fail within 3 months of using them because of the powersaving auto spindown. ever since i have not used that feature unless its on a laptop. and i've only

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
William Leese wrote: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? IBM is all i use now.. i'd buy a maxtor

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is 'hostname'. You need to

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? IBM drives are

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: ... 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. I doubt it. Any trouble I've had with PS2 mouses not being properly initialized could

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # 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. # # I doubt it. Any trouble I've

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:30:11PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the # recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread John Galt
Everything in /etc/init.d is a shell script that can be used to restart a daemon. Usage: /etc/init.d/foo restart. If there's not a init.d script, ps aux|grep foo to get the PID, then kill -HUP PID. That's just about it: if it doesn't fit into one of these two categories, it's not important to

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and /etc/init.d/networking restart want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
Hi, Martin! On Friday 16 February 2001 15:54, Martin_Tanzer@dvs-berlin.de wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot... martin And not even that is necessary,

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a reboot to do this. Did you reboot after running fdisk when installing Debian? fdisk can