Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:48:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>, Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to reset FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19981012094800.J24503@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981011194145.1023A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>; from BEAUPRE Antoine on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 07:42:50PM -0400 References: <199810112337.TAA03530@federation.addy.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.981011194145.1023A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Sunday, 11 October 1998 at 19:42:50 -0400, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: >> On 11-Oct-98 BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: >>> Apart from a reboot, how can I restart the system? >> >> What do you mean by "restart" the system? >> What did you mean by reboot? The reboot command? >> You can "halt" the system and then turn off the computer or press any key >> for a reboot. >> >> man: shutdown, halt, reboot > > I mean restarting the ttys, re-reading rc.local, etc. But not rebooting! > No morre than halting the system. Keeping process running (like ppp) would > be nice also... If you want to re-read /etc/rc.local, do: # . /etc/rc.local But you need to understand what you're doing first. In most cases, you can restart individual processes or configure interfaces without resorting to that kind of blanket measure. What are you really trying to do? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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