From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 8:41: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19D037B642 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:40:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA83929; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:38:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: j mckitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restarting w/o rebooting In-Reply-To: <20000725155826.B29415@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You don't even need to restart anything to refresh the firewall rules. Assuming you're using /etc/rc.firewall for your rules, just do: sh /etc/firewall Do that only from the console, not from a network login or you _will_ get yourself firewalled out. If you're doing it from the network, do: sh /etc/firewall > fw.out 2>&1 And then review the file fw.out afterwards. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, j mckitrick wrote: > > I am testing new firewall rules, and i would like to restart the appropriate > progs without rebooting , which is what i do now. > (you can tell i've been around windows too much :) > > I believe i want to use 'kill -1' but i'm not sure what task i want. > inetd? natd? i am running the firewall for dialup systems from the freebsd > website. the article is about a month or so old. it uses ipfw. > > thanks, > > jm > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message