From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 16:36:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF05716A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:36:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FC943D2F for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:36:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:32:52 -0600 Message-ID: <4198DB10.6080101@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:36:32 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay O'Brien References: <41985058.7030304@att.net> In-Reply-To: <41985058.7030304@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2004 16:32:52.0968 (UTC) FILETIME=[C0F9C680:01C4CB30] cc: FreeBSD - questions Subject: Re: How to make configuration changes without a reboot? (resolved) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:36:26 -0000 Jay O'Brien wrote: >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 > > Day late and a dollar short here, I imagine, but let's not forget that in some instances, you have make targets for restarts and that ilk; you can also in many instances give a HUP signal... Whether or not that would have helped Jay with his screensaver, I dunno. Kevin Kinsey