From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 20:35:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC08B16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [195.170.0.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A94543D4C for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:35:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a180.otenet.gr [212.205.215.180]) j2FKYAuj014749; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:34:10 +0200 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2FKYTWS001747; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:34:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j2FKYTHI001746; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:34:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:34:29 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bernt Hansson Message-ID: <20050315203429.GC1558@gothmog.gr> References: <42368FC6.5040106@bah.homeip.net> <5d2cf69205031507533631ce04@mail.gmail.com> <42372A1A.3080907@bah.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42372A1A.3080907@bah.homeip.net> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.conf reloaded X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:35:40 -0000 On 2005-03-15 19:31, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Jeff Wirth skrev: > >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 > > Thanks Jeff. It seems like one can't reload rc.conf from an ssh > session. Well. That's that i suppose. Thank you ALL for the input. Yes, you can't "reload" rc.conf. It doesn't make sense, because rc.conf is not "loaded" after a system has brought itself up. It only serves as a useful collection of options and is parsed (mostly) at startup time by some of the startup scripts. If you have some specific changes to rc.conf in mind that you need to apply without a reboot, it's usually possible. We'd have to know what the exact changes were though, before any meaningful response could be written. - Giorgos