From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 19:21:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8E837B9FF for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000524022109.OOEH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:21:09 -0700 Content-Length: 757 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:21:09 -0400 (EDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Jim Freeze Subject: RE: Can I affect changes in rc.firewall w/o rebooting? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <20000524022109.OOEH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-May-00 Jim Freeze wrote: > The title says it all. > > I have recently added ipfw to my system and have customized > /etc/rc.firewall. However, I cannot seem to get these rules updated > without rebooting. And, I have been unsuccessful in my searches for this > information. > > If anyone knows, I would appreciate the tip. > Thanks You can use ipfw to update the rules manually, or just type 'sh /etc/rc.firewall' at a shell prompt _on_ _the_ _console_. If you do this remotely over a net connection it won't work unless you direct all output to /dev/null. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message