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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:32:22 +0000
From:      David Jenkins <david.jenkins@gmail.com>
To:        "v.demartino2@virgilio.it" <v.demartino2@virgilio.it>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Restarting rc.conf
Message-ID:  <9395922d041122033246970af4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <41536B85000AC932@ims3e.cp.tin.it>
References:  <41536B85000AC932@ims3e.cp.tin.it>

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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:18:05 +0100, v.demartino2@virgilio.it
<v.demartino2@virgilio.it> wrote:
> I set up a postgresql server under FreeBDSD 5.3 stable.
> 
> My question: if I modify rc.conf either directly or via sysinstall  how
> can I make the system be aware of that WITHOUT REBOOTING, in other words,
> how can I make FreeBSD execute the modified rc.conf?

I asked this question a long time ago as I wanted to do something
similar. Unfortunately there's no command you can run to just re-read
rc.conf.

The only thing you can do is drop to single user mode and then come
back up to multi-user.

Hope this helps.

David



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