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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
Cc: "'John'" <papalia@UDel.Edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf restart 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:44:48 -0400."
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:44:48 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote:

>  1. sh /etc/rc.conf (I have no idea how this would effect the system).

Then don't do it. :-)

>  2. shutdown, which drops you to single user.  Then if you exit the shell
> it'll reload the system and go back to multiuser.

The ``shutdown now'' is all you need. When you exit the single-user
shell, /etc/rc will be fired up again. That file sources rc.conf and
friends.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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