From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 11:56:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.root-servers.ch (beta.root-servers.ch [195.49.33.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E7FB37B43F for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 60645 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2000 18:56:08 -0000 Received: from client74-19.hispeed.ch (HELO 10.2.2.100) (62.2.74.19) by beta.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 11 Sep 2000 18:56:08 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:58:28 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.46 Beta/3) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1611644915.20000911205828@buz.ch> To: "Otter" Cc: "Odhiambo Washington" , "Salvo Bartolotta" , Subject: Re[2]: PORTMAP In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Otter, Sunday, September 10, 2000, 4:49:24 PM, you wrote: > The rc.conf file is an easy one. As I sit here and think about those > in a mission critical environment, and the changes they might need to > make after getting the OS installed and in production... Is there any > way to make changes to the rc.conf, and somehow > restart/reinitialize/etc those changes without rebooting? Maybe > sysctl? I've been looking at the man page for it and don't see > anything that would work there. Anyone have a clue? I don't. That depends heavily on the settings you refer to. You can change many during runtime, some are easier, some harder, some use sysctl (mainly those who use sysctl in rc), some someother tool (e.g. kill -HUP). If you just want to get down portmap, a simple # kill `cat /var/run/portmap.pid` should generally do it. Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message