From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 10:29:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28674 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28669 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:29:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 1791"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-29 #30976) with ESMTP id <0F1L00CJ2Q0COC@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:29:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:29:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: rc.conf In-reply-to: To: Jerry Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Everything changed in rc.conf can be started from the command line (I think). What change did you make? Some things are a little more complicated that others. For instance, to enable ip forwarding, you need to sset a kernel mib variable using sysctl (sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1). Take a look through /etc/rc.* to see what init does to start things up. Joe Clarke On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jerry wrote: > I don't know if I'm using the right term but I've made a change to my > /etc/rc.conf file is there a way to restart/re-initialize this file > without rebooting? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message