From: etyrnal at ameritech.net >On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 05:26 PM, SeaSoft Systems wrote: > >> My AppleFileServer service crashes occasionally (on an eMac Jag system >> 10.2.8; the crash itself is related, I think, to a backup session from >> an OS 8.6 machine on my local network). >> >> I can live with the crash, but I can't figure out how to get AFS >> restarted without rebooting the eMac. >> >> I snooped around the terminal ("apropos restart") and came up with >> SystemStarter, which looks like it should do the job, acts like it >> does the job, but doesn't. >> >> Any guidance much appreciated... >> >> Richard > >i haver a machine that keeps turning it's AppleFileServer off... > >in the terminal; > >sudo AppleFileServer > >that's it... it will ask you for your password. > >or you can just go into SystemPreferences and just turn file sharing >back on... > Thanks! For some reason, the sudo terminal command didn't restart the service OMM. However, SystemPrefs did the job. Doh! (smacks forehead...) Richard