From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 04:11:57 2004 Return-Path: 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 74C5716A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:11:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010E443D48 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:11:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayobrien@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (dsl093-180-184.sac1.dsl.speakeasy.net[66.93.180.184]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004111504115611100j7tpce> (Authid: jayobrien@att.net); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:11:56 +0000 Message-ID: <41982C89.9090600@att.net> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:11:53 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to make configuration changes without a reboot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:11:57 -0000 I learned that in order to make changes to the screen saver, I had to reboot the computer. Those changes, made by sysinstall, appear in /etc/rc.conf. Is there a way to make such changes take effect without rebooting? (Version 5.3 RELEASE, i386) Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, California, USA