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At Sun, 19 Mar 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed:

> One doesn't start anything from the rc.conf file - at least properly.
> Those things get started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
> 
> What goes in /etc/rc.conf are environmental variable settings that
> those rc.d scripts look at to determine what to do.
> 

I was under the impression that when one 'restarts' that the
service will "re-read" /etc/rc.conf

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[root@corten8 ~]-> uname -r
6.0-RELEASE

[root@corten8 ~]-> /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

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