What is the proper way to restart udev?

[John Wendel]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Friday, Jun 9th 2006 at 13:04 -0400, quoth Dan:
> 
> =>Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> I found /sbin/udevstart but there is no udevstop. Can I kill -1 the running
> =>> udevd, or do I kill -9 the udevd followed by a udevstart, or do I have to
> =>> reboot?
> =>> 
> =>> TIA
> =>> 
> =>Not certain on this but my gut tells me it'd be bad to kill udev on a running
> =>system.
> =>-Dan
> 
> Umm, thanks, but no. udevd is just another userspace process AFAICT. If it 
> weren't running then the worst that could happen is that some dynamic 
> device creation would not happen.
> 
> Anyone else on how to restart?
> 


The udevd man page is your friend.

"udevd receives the events from udevsend If udevd isn't already 
running, udevsend will start it."

Regards,

John