From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 3:44:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76327157E8 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 03:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11TjbH-0005tV-00; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:26:11 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11TjbG-0005eB-00; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:26:10 +0100 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:26:10 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Christopher Michaels Cc: 'John' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf restart Message-ID: <19990922112610.B21609@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C8A@site2s1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C8A@site2s1> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Michaels wrote: > Well I can think of two ways. If there are better ways, hopefully someone > else will mention that. > > 1. sh /etc/rc.conf (I have no idea how this would effect the system). This would do (effectively) nothing. /etc/rc.conf just sets variables, nothing is executed. The variables set only take effect in the "sh" process you invoke, and are forgotten when it exits. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message