From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 11: 1:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net (chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net [24.147.1.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B8D37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:01:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.188.158]) by chmls18.ne.ipsvc.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g15J1WG18275; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:01:32 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g15J1WT04790; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:01:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to lowell@world.std.com using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, uwiman3k@hotmail.com Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 05 Feb 2002 14:01:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44vgdbu50z.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "uwi mAn" writes: > How to restart /etc/rc.conf without having to reboot the system? rc.conf doesn't actually run anything -- it is *only* configuration information. You need to reconfigure (or restart with new configuration) whatever *uses* the piece of rc.conf that you changed. If you had described what you were actually trying to do, I could have answered in a bit more detail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message