From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 7:45:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112FC37B422 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA07093; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:41:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Odhiambo Washington" , "Salvo Bartolotta" Cc: Subject: RE: PORTMAP Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:49:24 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000910.15160000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG }>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< } }On 9/10/00, 2:43:14 PM, Odhiambo Washington }wrote regarding PORTMAP: } } }> Hello pals, }> I need to know whether I will be calling for trouble }disabling portmap }and }> how to do it. This is on FBSD 3.4-R. Some guy seems to be so busy }scanning }> my network and I guess this is a way to settle the score }with him;-) } }> -Wash } } } }Dear Odhiambo Washington, } }the short answer is rc.conf(5), but today is Sunday :-) } }/etc/rc.conf: } }[...] }portmap_enable="NO" }[...] } }This won't start portmap at boot time. } }Best regards, }Salvo } Salvo (or anyone else), The rc.conf file is an easy one. As I sit here and think about those in a mission critical environment, and the changes they might need to make after getting the OS installed and in production... Is there any way to make changes to the rc.conf, and somehow restart/reinitialize/etc those changes without rebooting? Maybe sysctl? I've been looking at the man page for it and don't see anything that would work there. Anyone have a clue? I don't. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message