On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi typed: > A couple of people suggested to read the ifconfig man page. I do > understand the ifconfig, and I can change the IP settings using > ifconfig without re-booting the system. > > What I wondered was a way of editing rc.conf directly and how I can it > be working without re-boot the system. As Nikos suggested, it would > not be a good way if there is only one way to go for it by using > 'shutdown now' command; as it kills all the running processes.
I believe in FreeBSD 5.x, soon to become -stable, all you need to do in this case is /etc/rc.d/netif restart Ruben _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"