[plug] Hostname change

[Mike (Perth, WA)]

At 06:24 PM 15/02/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
>
>> restart the syslogd... It checks the hostname at startup and caches the
>> result.  Other daemons may be affected by the same issue.
>
>Which just goes to show that any serious OS should be rebooted after every
>configuration change.

mmmm - Nop, don't agree with that on philosophical grounds...

It should be possible to reconfigure an OS and even various kernel operators
during execution (with appropriate safegaurds) and not have to go through
a full reboot which may upset tasks, its easy to say at moment
cause I don't think anyone is using linux in Perth for *real* mission
critical stuff - BUt it would be nice if such OS design was built-in...

<Flame suit at the ready> ;-)


Rgds ~`:o)

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