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Old 09-13-2005
reload kernal without reboot

Hello!

Does anyone know howto reload your kernal without rebooting the machine?
I´ve updated the "/etc/security/limits.conf " file and need to make this active without rebooting the machine. this is Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1AS

Regards...
dOzY
# 2  
Old 09-13-2005
limits.conf is applied during login, not reboot afaik. So restarting the services rather than the whole computer ought to work.
# 3  
Old 09-28-2005
You can't reload the kernel without rebooting the machine. In the newest kernel (2.6.13) they added a new feature called kexec which will reload a kernel without physically rebooting the machine, but it still kills all of the services and downs everything. At best, it is a faster way to reboot.
# 4  
Old 10-02-2005
Reloading kernel is one of few things you can not do in Linux without reboot, but you could compile ee-everything as modules and reload them.
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