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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:53:42 -0500
From: Jeff Wirth <jeff.wirth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: rc.conf reloaded
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> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:33:26 +0100, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I want to reread the rc.conf file without reboot.
> How does one do that?
> 
> /etc/netstart restarts the network but /etc/rc.conf
> does nothing.
> 
> Is it me or...

FAQs for FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#REREAD-RC

Recent thread on freebsd-questions: (reload rc.conf without rebooting)
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-March/thread.html#79339

-jw