Re: Restarting systemd

[Tim]

On Sun, 2017-03-05 at 11:15 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 'dnf update' (using the tracer plugin) often tells me to restart
> certain services via systemctl, which is fine. However on occasion it
> tells me to restart something manually. I can usually figure out how to
> do this, but the one I can't figure out is systemd itself:
>
> ...
> You should restart:
> These applications manually:
>   systemd
>
> # systemctl daemon-reexec
> # tracer
> You should restart:
> These applications manually:
>   systemd
>
> Sending HUP, TERM etc. to systemd doesn't make any difference.
>
> Is there a way to do this without rebooting?

From googling restart systemd without rebooting, I saw an example that
says do:

systemctl daemon-reexec

I'll leave it to you to test out.