On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:04:08PM +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > 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. > > Cheers,
You could simply rerun one/some/all of the /etc/rc-scripts, e.g. "sh /etc/rc.network" in your case. But I don't think this is recommended. However, you can learn alot about the initialization of the system just by reading this scripts. GH _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
