Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:43:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Matthew T. Lager" <freebsd@trinetworks.com> To: "Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien@att.net> Cc: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to make configuration changes without a reboot? Message-ID: <1804.64.73.235.136.1100493837.squirrel@64.73.235.136> In-Reply-To: <41982C89.9090600@att.net> References: <41982C89.9090600@att.net>
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You can do a shutdown now to get to single user mode, then execute an exit which will boot back into multi-user mode. All rc scripts will be re-initilized and you won't have to reboot the entire system (be sure to only do this on the console obviously)... . Matt L > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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