From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 21 14:41:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from codine.icr.com.au (codine.icr.com.au [203.17.49.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6774137C103 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dale@icr.com.au) Received: from icr.com.au (fantasy.icr.com.au [203.17.49.120]) by codine.icr.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA01014; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:45:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dale@icr.com.au) Message-ID: <395136DB.1C4FF14D@icr.com.au> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:42:51 +1000 From: Dale Walker Reply-To: dale@icr.com.au Organization: Independent Computer Retailers (ICR) Pty Ltd / ICRnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Cc: FelixC , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Reboot after rc.conf change? References: <200006212134.PAA68478@mail.fpsn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Simon wrote: > > What changes are you referring to? most changes can take effect > without a reboot unless it involves a new kernel. > > -Simon > > --Original Message Text--- > From: FelixC > Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:32:11 -0700 > > Is there anyother way to make the changed rc.conf to take effect > without rebooting? If your only changing something that is used as an argument in an app that can be safely stopped/restarted, you can apply the changes by re-running the appropriate /etc/rc.* script.. eg. if you make a balls-up on your firewall config, make the change, and apply by: sh /etc/rc.firewall it will re-read the parameters from /etc/rc.conf... -- Dale Walker dale@icr.com.au Independent Computer Retailers (ICR) http://www.icr.com.au ICRnet http://www.icr.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message