From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 14: 2: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt014n8c.san.rr.com [24.30.129.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8E2153B7 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17781; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37EE8A79.1D771394@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:04:57 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf restart References: <4.1.19990921215707.0095e2e0@unix01.voicenet.com> <4.1.19990924200720.0097a430@unix01.voicenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John wrote: > > This is exactly the kind of answer I was actually looking for... the whole > point of what I was trying to achieve was to make changes, have them > recognized, all without bumping users off the system, and all without > having to run the hardware through repeated reboots if my changes failed... *Nod* I got that impression, and thanks for the kind words. > For more details, what I was curious about trying to do was to add a > netmask to the lo0 line in the file to see what affect that would have. > But, I wanted the system to read the change without a reboot if possible. > Perhaps you might even be able to comment on if this is even possible? I'm > actually trying to trouble shoot a new install of samba, but I'm not giving > up on trying to cure it myself yet =) Never give up! :) All you need to do for this is to ifconfig the interface. The man page for ifconfig should give you all you need to know. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message