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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:16:29 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Network Startup
Message-ID:  <15308.23901.224115.801253@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <88624047@toto.iv>

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Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> types:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:22:21PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > In the last episode (Oct 15), j balan said:
> > > Does anyone know the command to reload rc.conf
> > 'reboot' is the only sure way.  
> That's a bit of a problem as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the network
> scripts should be redesigned in a similar manner to the one taken on be
> RedHat.

Note that rc.conf and just the network scripts are slightly different
things. rc.conf controls a lot more than just the network, and the
only way to reload it is a reboot. Individual components can be
stopped and restarted - or asked to reconfig - by hand.

As far as I know, the RedHat stuff is modeled after System V, which,
aside from the one good feature you've just noticed, acts more like a
bilge pump than software.

There is work afoot for incorporating the 5.0 to incorporate the
NetBSD startup system, which picks up that one good feature of the
System V stuff, adds a few other goodies, and doesn't otherwise act
like a bilge pump.

	<mike
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