From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 3 11:41:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from euphoria.confusion.net (dementia.confusion.net [205.166.119.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B2337B71B; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@euphoria.confusion.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by euphoria.confusion.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f23JfDE29899; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:41:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:41:12 -0800 (PST) From: Larry Berland To: Educatee Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how could I bring up interface with new value without reboot? In-Reply-To: <003001c0a304$66e42bc0$1e4ea4cb@co3018900a> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The easiest way to get all that to happen is to go into single user mode and then back up into multi, but AFAIK hosts and resolv.conf should get reread the next time something calls the resolver, without needing to actually do anything. Depending on the changes you make to rc.conf, you might also be able to do things like use ifconfig etc to make changes to a running system. Also, newbies isn't the place to ask these questions. Questions go to -questions. I've redirected replies to there. Laurence Berland http://www.isp.northwestern.edu/~laurence On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Educatee wrote: > After I have edit the info for rc.conf, hosts, and resolv.conf, how could I > bring this network interface up without having to restart? Thanks > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message