From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 10:52:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6E2137B401 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 68124 invoked by uid 100); 16 Oct 2001 16:16:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15308.23901.224115.801253@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:16:29 -0500 To: Andrew Reid Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Startup In-Reply-To: <88624047@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reid 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message