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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:15:36 -0600
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Restarting rc.conf
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--On Monday, November 22, 2004 12:34:58 PM +0000 David Jenkins 
<david.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would imagine for convenience - if their reasons are similar to what
> mine were.
>
> i.e if you have made several changes to rc.conf then manually
> restarting several services via /etc/rc.d or /usr/local/etc/rc.d or
> running ifconfig is monotonous.
>
How monotonous is:

cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d./
foreach file in .
do
$file restart
done

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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