From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 07:25:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA23087 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 07:25:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23031 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 07:24:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA19136; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:24:38 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611131524.JAA19136@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Hup for rc.local? To: paul@nation-net.com (Paul Walsh) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:24:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3289D700.454D@nation-net.com> from Paul Walsh at "Nov 13, 96 02:11:12 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Paul Walsh said: > I have my ifconfig aliases in a separate file loaded from rc.local. > > It has grown. > > How do I reprocess this list ie. re-run rc.local without rebooting? > > (I tried kill -hup 1 as I thought inet processed the rc files, but no > luck.) > > Cheers en avance, > > Paul Walsh. You probably don't want to re-run rc.local, it does a few other things. But, just source the file you have your aliases in. sh /etc/my-ifconfig-aliases-file or sh /etc/rc.local As root of course. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030