From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 11 13:40:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.inwind.it (relay1.inwind.it [212.141.53.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD4837B42C for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.78.192) by relay1.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39AFDC990016B132; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:38:28 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:38:42 GMT Message-ID: <20000911.21384200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: PORTMAP To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: "Otter" , "Odhiambo Washington" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1611644915.20000911205828@buz.ch> References: <1611644915.20000911205828@buz.ch> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ redirected to -chat ]=20 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/11/00, 7:58:28 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote=20 regarding Re[2]: PORTMAP: > Hello Otter, > Sunday, September 10, 2000, 4:49:24 PM, you wrote: > > The rc.conf file is an easy one. As I sit here and think about those= > > in a mission critical environment, and the changes they might need t= o > > make after getting the OS installed and in production... Is there an= y > > way to make changes to the rc.conf, and somehow > > restart/reinitialize/etc those changes without rebooting? Maybe > > sysctl? I've been looking at the man page for it and don't see > > anything that would work there. Anyone have a clue? I don't. > That depends heavily on the settings you refer to. You can change many= > during runtime, some are easier, some harder, some use sysctl (mainly > those who use sysctl in rc), some someother tool (e.g. kill -HUP). If > you just want to get down portmap, a simple > # kill `cat /var/run/portmap.pid` > should generally do it. > Best regards, > Gabriel Hello Gabriel, I had to go out (it was Sunday after all ;-) just when the best part=20 of the conversation was taking place ... I had thought that the most interesting/least obvious case was that of=20 rc.conf(5); the other cases being relatively easier and related to=20 such [more or less] common commands/man pages as kill(1), killall(1),=20 sysctl(8), sysctl.conf(5); which commands, AFAIR, as well as their=20 [more or less] subtle implications, have been discussed a thousand=20 times on the -questions list. However, repetita iuvant* :-) Most importantly, FreeBSD !=3D Winblows. Usually, you only reboot when=20 you wish to boot a new kernel (e.g. during the source updating=20 process) ;-) --Salvo *Latin: literally: "repeated things help", ie repeating=20 advice/recommendations/etc. helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message