From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Jul 18 10:23:19 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2540C37B401
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:23:19 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from pop016.verizon.net (pop016pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.173])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F277943F93
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from cswiger@mac.com)
Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by pop016.verizon.net
          (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP
          id <20030718172317.VIEU3199.pop016.verizon.net@mac.com>;
          Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:23:17 -0500
Message-ID: <3F182CFC.8060005@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:23:08 -0400
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Organization: The Courts of Chaos
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
	rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: DanB <longterm@chatusa.com>
References: <3F17FAED.B82975EB@chatusa.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F17FAED.B82975EB@chatusa.com>
X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0
X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop016.verizon.net from
	[141.149.47.46] at Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:23:16 -0500
cc: freebsd <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: How do you restart rc.local file?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:23:19 -0000

DanB wrote:
> How do you restart rc.local file? Without rebooting your box?

"sh /etc/rc.local" is likely to do something useful, although if the services it 
starts are still running, this won't do the right thing.  [That's why rc.d 
scripts are recommended over rc.local.]

-- 
-Chuck