Re: how to restart network without rebooting

[Jim Geovedi <negative@australia.edu>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:38:28AM +0100, Artur Grabowski wrote:
> "veins" <veins@skreel.org> writes:
> 
> > what about his uptime  =)
> 
> Use ddb.
> 
> # uptime
> 11:23AM  up 11 hrs, 3 users, load averages: 1.22, 0.87, 0.67
> # [halt - sent]
> ddb> exa boottime+0x4
> boottime+0x4:   3c7c1904
> ddb> w boottime+0x4 30000000
> boottime+0x4            0x3c7c1904      =       0x30000000
> # uptime
> 11:24AM  up 2424 days, 18:12, 3 users, load averages: 1.19, 0.95, 0.72
> # 

is there any artikel/howto about ddb? and how to quit and save from 
``ddb>'' prompt? 

and what damage may caused by changing the boottime?



-- 
 jim geovedi