Jay O'Brien wrote: >> I learned that in order to make changes to the screen saver, >> I had to reboot the computer. Those changes, made by >> sysinstall, appear in /etc/rc.conf. >> >> Is there a way to make such changes take effect without >> rebooting? (Version 5.3 RELEASE, i386)
Matthew T. Lager wrote: > You can do a shutdown now to get to single user mode, then > execute an exit which will boot back into multi-user mode. > All rc scripts will be re-initilized and you won't have to > reboot the entire system (be sure to only do this on the > console obviously)... Olivier Nicole wrote: > Maybe you can try to unload the screen saver module and > reload it, look at kldload(8), kldstat(8) and kldunload(8) Matt, Oliver: Thanks! I found that the shutdown/exit worked fine for changing the blanktime, but it wouldn't change the logo unless the logo was first unloaded using first kldstat and then kldunload. I needed guidance from both of you, thanks very much! Jay O'Brien _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
