[Techtalk] I've lost my prompt

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:16:43AM +0800 or thereabouts, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > When I said I didn't know the right way, I didn't mean the right way 
> > to reboot--I meant I don't know how to restart the system to accept 
> > the aliases without rebooting.

I wasn't sure. I did wonder, but since you mentioned rebooting, I
thought I'd cover the obvious one first. And like Malcolm, I know
how RH organises which file gets read when, but I wasn't sure that
the /etc/profile.local was what I guessed on SuSE, so I stayed
out of that one :)

> [Do you get the feeling that, for some of us, rebooting isn't something
> we do very often? :-) ]

[hobbit at aloss ~]$ uptime
 10:30pm  up 88 days,  7:28, 16 users,  load average: 0.18, 0.10, 0.09
[hobbit at aloss ~]$ ps aux | grep startx | grep -v grep
hobbit    3840  0.0  0.0  1848    0 tty2     SW   Jun19   0:00 [startx]

And X was running a long time before that. I had one of those
pre-coffee moments and somehow decided that "undo last action" in
my editor was control-alt-backspace, so I had to restart X. I
felt very stupid :) 

Having said that, I had to shutdown and poweroff (as opposed to
just reboot) my laptop the other day to restore sanity after some 
X experimentation went awry and left the videocard totally confused.
I felt really aggrieved about it, too! I don't expect to have to 
switch things off, ever :) 

Telsa