From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 17:58:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0F516A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:58:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A5843D3F for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:58:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bent@munat.com) Received: from [192.168.123.141] (c-24-18-111-28.client.comcast.net[24.18.111.28]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005030517585201300ogkofe>; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:58:52 +0000 Message-ID: <4229F563.1020809@munat.com> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:07:31 -0800 From: Ben Munat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4226AFAD.4040100@munat.com> <20050303101807.GE1127@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050305110330.GA45280@scode-whitestar.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20050305110330.GA45280@scode-whitestar.mine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:58:53 -0000 Peter Schuller wrote: >>>How does one cause rc.conf to be reread without rebooting? Under linux >>>I would generally do "source somefile.conf". But if I do "source >>>rc.conf", I'm told that all my settings are not commands. >> >>Generally, you don't. >> >>For details, see the explanation of the FAQ: >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#REREAD-RC > > > It's worth mentioning that if you're on 5.x and are looking to reload certain > specific settings (such as daemon configurations etc), you can run > /etc/rc.d/affected-script reload (or the equivalent in /usr/local/etc/rc.d). > Thanks.... yeah, I figured that. However, in this case I had simply added "keymap="us.iso"" to the rc.conf. So, I had to stop all my daemons just to change my keymap. Now, this was just on my home box, so I don't really care. But I'm running FreeBSD on this home machine as a test to see if I want to put it on my server. This rc.conf thing was another significant strike against it. Someone correct me if I got this wrong... b