From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 01:33:03 2003 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 56DF737B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 01:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E6243FEA for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 01:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 197tCe-000HvS-00; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:32:36 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 197tCQ-000HvH-00; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:32:23 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 197tCM-00067v-00; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:32:18 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 197tCL-0002Ss-00; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:32:17 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: Paul Everlund Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:32:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304221032.17546.will@unfoldings.net> Sender: Willie Viljoen X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *197tCQ-000HvH-00*2hLBJ20FqcU* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: jemaxwell@jaymax.com Subject: Re: Restarting init without rebooting 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: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:33:03 -0000 On Tuesday 22 April 2003 9:37, someone, possibly Paul Everlund, typed: > If you type 'kill -HUP 1' the init-process reads some (do > not know which except for /etc/ttys) configuration files. You can get the same result with init q. This reloads /etc/ttys(5), but doesn't restart anything else. > Can one not accomplish this by 'killall init'? Then enter for > '/bin/sh', and when typing exit the rc-scripts seems to be read > once again. This must of course be done at the console. It's possible, havn't tried though. But if you want to reinvoke the rc scripts, make sure you do umount -A (not umount -a) first. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net