Jay O'Brien wrote:
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
Day late and a dollar short here, I imagine, but let's not forget that in some instances, you have make targets for restarts and that ilk; you can also in many instances give a HUP signal...
Whether or not that would have helped Jay with his screensaver, I dunno.
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