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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:33:17 -0800
From: Ben Munat <bent@munat.com>
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Subject: reload rc.conf without rebooting
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How does one cause rc.conf to be reread without rebooting? Under linux I would generally 
do "source somefile.conf". But if I do "source rc.conf", I'm told that all my settings are 
not commands.

Ben