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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:57:18 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
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Subject: Re: editing the rc.conf
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi typed:
> A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do
> understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using
> ifconfig without re-booting the system.
> 
> What I wondered was a way of editing rc.conf directly and how I can it
> be working without re-boot the system. As Nikos suggested, it would
> not be a good way if there is only one way to go for it by using
> 'shutdown now' command; as it kills all the running processes.

I believe in FreeBSD 5.x, soon to become -stable, all you need to
do in this case is /etc/rc.d/netif restart

Ruben