hostconfig process

[LuKreme]

On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> if it's "/etc/hostconfig" you want to modify, reboot is in order.   
> If you are after a specific item therein, there may be an answer  
> that does not require reboot (but that could change the next time  
> the OS changes).

Well, yes in practice most of the time for most values of 'require'  
but it is possible to do nearly anything, if you really want to work  
at it, without rebooting. I've seen someone load a new kernel<1>  
without rebooting a machine, but that was just showing off and of  
course it took quite a lot longer than rebooting and still required  
restarting every process.  We called it the 'hot boot' to distinguish  
it from a cold boot or a merely warm boot. :)  Funny part is, about  
15 minutes after the hot boot there was a power outage and the  
machine had to be shut down anyway, but Mr showoff did collect a beer  
from each of the people who bet he couldn't do it.

<1> This was not OS X, but some UNIX ish system (AT&T System V iirc).