What is the proper way to restart udev?
John Wendel
john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Fri Jun 9 20:47:22 UTC 2006
Steven W. Orr wrote:
> 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?
>
The udevd man page is your friend.
"udevd receives the events from udevsend If udevd isn't already
running, udevsend will start it."
Regards,
John
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