Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:44:40 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to make configuration changes without a reboot? (resolved) Message-ID: <41985058.7030304@att.net>
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Jay O'Brien wrote: >> 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) Matthew T. Lager wrote: > 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)... Olivier Nicole wrote: > Maybe you can try to unload the screen saver module and > reload it, look at kldload(8), kldstat(8) and kldunload(8) Matt, Oliver: Thanks! I found that the shutdown/exit worked fine for changing the blanktime, but it wouldn't change the logo unless the logo was first unloaded using first kldstat and then kldunload. I needed guidance from both of you, thanks very much! Jay O'Brien
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