From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 19:43:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68378154B8 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:42:24 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C8A@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'John' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: /etc/rc.conf restart Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:44:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well I can think of two ways. If there are better ways, hopefully someone else will mention that. 1. sh /etc/rc.conf (I have no idea how this would effect the system). 2. shutdown, which drops you to single user. Then if you exit the shell it'll reload the system and go back to multiuser. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: John [SMTP:papalia@UDel.Edu] > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:57 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: /etc/rc.conf restart > > Welcome to the next of my "it seems like the answer would be so simple" > questions... > > Is there a way to get the system to re-read /etc/rc.conf without a > shutdown/reboot? > > Thanks!!! > --John > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message