Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:17:19 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledome.gr> To: Soo-Hyun Choi <shchoi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editing the rc.conf Message-ID: <200408271817.19544.nvass@teledome.gr> In-Reply-To: <34b425c504082705446816dc77@mail.gmail.com> References: <34b425c504082705446816dc77@mail.gmail.com>
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Ifconfig was mentioned. You can also reinitialize your system with shutdown(8). Shutdown will bring the system in single-user state (will kill all processes) and when you exit that, you'll have all changes made to rc.conf, active. Use "shutdown now" and then just exit the single-user shell. Cheers, NikV On Friday 27 August 2004 15:44, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > Hi, > > When I need to change the IP settings, I usually go over the rc.conf > directly (as root) to change the IP settings. The question is that > once I change the settings I need to re-boot the system in order to > the change be working. > > Is there any way that I can apply the changes without re-booting the > system? > > Cheers, > Soo-Hyun > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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