From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 17:18:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11049 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11040 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA16452; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:48:01 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA26470; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:48:00 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981012094800.J24503@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:48:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: BEAUPRE Antoine , Francisco Reyes Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to reset FreeBSD? References: <199810112337.TAA03530@federation.addy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from BEAUPRE Antoine on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 07:42:50PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 11 October 1998 at 19:42:50 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: >> On 11-Oct-98 BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: >>> Apart from a reboot, how can I restart the system? >> >> What do you mean by "restart" the system? >> What did you mean by reboot? The reboot command? >> You can "halt" the system and then turn off the computer or press any key >> for a reboot. >> >> man: shutdown, halt, reboot > > I mean restarting the ttys, re-reading rc.local, etc. But not rebooting! > No morre than halting the system. Keeping process running (like ppp) would > be nice also... If you want to re-read /etc/rc.local, do: # . /etc/rc.local But you need to understand what you're doing first. In most cases, you can restart individual processes or configure interfaces without resorting to that kind of blanket measure. What are you really trying to do? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message