From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 21 15:43: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from isot.com (isot.com [63.161.224.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFF037B8AA for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@isot.com) Received: from student5 (student4.isot.com [63.161.239.80]) by isot.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA00990 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:37:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001401bfdbe3$0fa08360$50efa13f@isot.com> From: "FelixC" To: References: <200006212134.PAA68478@mail.fpsn.net> <395136DB.1C4FF14D@icr.com.au> Subject: Re: Reboot after rc.conf change? Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:44:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've added ifconfig_ed0_alias0 ...... to the rc.conf file. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Walker To: Simon Cc: FelixC ; Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Reboot after rc.conf change? > 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