What is the proper way to restart udev?

Michael A Peters mpeters at mac.com
Thu Mar 1 23:31:39 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:24 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Thursday, Mar 1st 2007 at 14:09 -0700, quoth Kim Lux:
> 
> =>
> =>Just in case anyone is still wondering about this question, the easiest
> =>way to get udev to look at the bus again is udevtrigger.  And its fine
> =>to do it on a running machine.  I'm testing udev rules and it works well
> =>for that.  Saves a lot of time over rebooting. 
> =>
> =>man udevtrigger is your friend. :) 
> 
> Where is this mythical friend? It's not part of udev.

It is at least on fc6:

[mpeters at atlantis ~]$ rpm -qf /sbin/udevtrigger 
udev-095-17.fc6




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