Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:38:42 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>, "Odhiambo Washington" <vedette@iconnect.co.ke>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PORTMAP Message-ID: <20000911.21384200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <1611644915.20000911205828@buz.ch> References: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPIEGNCCAA.otterr@telocity.com> <1611644915.20000911205828@buz.ch>
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[ redirected to -chat ]=20 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/11/00, 7:58:28 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> wrote=20 regarding Re[2]: PORTMAP: > Hello Otter, > Sunday, September 10, 2000, 4:49:24 PM, you wrote: > > The rc.conf file is an easy one. As I sit here and think about those= > > in a mission critical environment, and the changes they might need t= o > > make after getting the OS installed and in production... Is there an= y > > way to make changes to the rc.conf, and somehow > > restart/reinitialize/etc those changes without rebooting? Maybe > > sysctl? I've been looking at the man page for it and don't see > > anything that would work there. Anyone have a clue? I don't. > That depends heavily on the settings you refer to. You can change many= > during runtime, some are easier, some harder, some use sysctl (mainly > those who use sysctl in rc), some someother tool (e.g. kill -HUP). If > you just want to get down portmap, a simple > # kill `cat /var/run/portmap.pid` > should generally do it. > Best regards, > Gabriel Hello Gabriel, I had to go out (it was Sunday after all ;-) just when the best part=20 of the conversation was taking place ... I had thought that the most interesting/least obvious case was that of=20 rc.conf(5); the other cases being relatively easier and related to=20 such [more or less] common commands/man pages as kill(1), killall(1),=20 sysctl(8), sysctl.conf(5); which commands, AFAIR, as well as their=20 [more or less] subtle implications, have been discussed a thousand=20 times on the -questions list. However, repetita iuvant* :-) Most importantly, FreeBSD !=3D Winblows. Usually, you only reboot when=20 you wish to boot a new kernel (e.g. during the source updating=20 process) ;-) --Salvo *Latin: literally: "repeated things help", ie repeating=20 advice/recommendations/etc. helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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