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From:	"da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT ampymetering DOT com DOT au>
To:	"'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: PNW (restarting server?)
Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:46:10 +1100
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Thanks for the idea, Matthias (and the warning about chkdsk/f,
Michal).

Yes, it seems the server can be unloaded with a "/U" command
line option, then reloaded. I'll have to do a bit of work to ensure
other TSR's are unloaded, but this idea looks feasible.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthias Paul [SMTP:Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de]
> Sent:	Sunday, January 30, 2005 7:09 AM
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Re: PNW (restarting server?)
> 
> On 2005-01-28, Michal H. Tyc wrote:
> 
> >> One question however. While I can use the command
> >> 'net down' to stop the server, I can't find any way to
> >> start it up again without rebooting. The documentation
> >> doesn't seem to mention anything about this. Does
> >> anyone know if it's possible to restart the server
> >> without the hassle of rebooting?
> > 
> > I don't know about such a possibility, unfortunately.
> > It would be very useful -- now you have to reboot to
> > re-enable the server not only after 'net down', but also
> > after 'chkdsk /f', 'diskopt', etc.
> 
> Hm, I haven't used it for a long while, but doesn't have the PNW
> SERVER (as well as the 16-bit ODI/VLM NetWare driver components)
> have a facility to unload from memory using the command line
> option /U? If so, just unload the components in opposite
> order of loading (f.e. in a batchjob named STOPNET.BAT)
> and then reload them using the usual STARTNET.BAT.
> (Please correct me, if I'm wrong, as I haven't retested this at the
> moment.)
> 
> Greetings to all,
> 
>  Matthias
> 



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