What is the proper way to restart udev?

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:18 PM -0400 6/9/06, 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?

Run /sbin/start_udev?  It seems to kill udevd before starting udevd.  It's
run by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, which is run by /etc/inittab for si.
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