[plug] restarting services without rebooting

[Matt Kemner]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, quoth sol:

> If I just mkdir /home/webmaster (with approriate permissions) and edit
> /etc/passwd's will everything be okay. Or do I need to restart something for
> Linux to realize that the webmaster's home directory has moved?

Only processes that are currently running under the "webmaster" user
(including a current pop-3 session or whatever) will need to be restarted.

 - Matt