Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:16:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to reset FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19981012111627.P24503@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981011213551.3347B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>; from BEAUPRE Antoine on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 09:39:44PM -0400 References: <19981012094800.J24503@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.981011213551.3347B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Sunday, 11 October 1998 at 21:39:44 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 11 October 1998 at 19:42:50 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: >>>> On 11-Oct-98 BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: >>>>> Apart from a reboot, how can I restart the system? >>>> >>>> What do you mean by "restart" the system? >>>> What did you mean by reboot? The reboot command? >>>> You can "halt" the system and then turn off the computer or press any key >>>> for a reboot. >>>> >>>> man: shutdown, halt, reboot >>> >>> I mean restarting the ttys, re-reading rc.local, etc. But not rebooting! >>> No morre than halting the system. Keeping process running (like ppp) would >>> be nice also... >> >> If you want to re-read /etc/rc.local, do: >> >> # . /etc/rc.local >> >> But you need to understand what you're doing first. In most cases, >> you can restart individual processes or configure interfaces without >> resorting to that kind of blanket measure. What are you really trying >> to do? > > In particular, I had problems with ppp. Trying to bind a socket to and > address was giving me "address already in use" by bind. What deamon or > process is responsible for this? The answer went past not quite an hour ago: On Monday, 12 October 1998 at 2:50:16 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Sat 1998-10-10 (17:55), Alfred wrote: >> i'm trying to code a threaded ident server >> (yes i know one already exists) >> however i'm finding the way that socket->uid mappings are done to be VERY >> UGLY(tm) unless i cheat :) >> >> then it gets worse when i try to find what port the socket is actually >> bound to. > > I'm not sure if this helps, but take a look at the lsof code, it does all > sorts of fun things, which you can limit to specific ports, and things > like that. > > ie, if I wanted to know who was using port 3400, I'd do: > > lsof -i :3400 > > and it'd return something like... > > irc-4.4 1291 bvi 4u inet 0xf77aede0 0t0 TCP xxxx:3400->yyyy:6667 > > Neil > Apart from this, I once needed to restart the ttys... All of them? What was wrong with them? Normally you'd do a kill -1 1 to get init to re-read /etc/ttys. > Also, when I drop single-user (kill 1), kill 1? You're trying to kill init? The correct way to go back to single-user mode is with shutdown (no flags). But why do you want to do this? > I can't get back to mutli-user mode... This must be an easy one > although. it tries to mount drives,and I get "device busy"s, but I > can't umount them... Right. In fact, 'shutdown now' isn't very useful. If you *really* want to go to single user mode, you're better off booting. But I can't see any good reason to want to do so. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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