How to make configuration changes without a reboot? (resolved)

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Jay O'Brien wrote:

>Jay O'Brien wrote:
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>>>I learned that in order to make changes to the screen saver,
>>>I had to reboot the computer. Those changes, made by
>>>sysinstall, appear in /etc/rc.conf.
>>>
>>>Is there a way to make such changes take effect without
>>>rebooting?  (Version 5.3 RELEASE, i386)
>>>      
>>>
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>Matthew T. Lager wrote:
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>>You can do a shutdown now to get to single user mode, then 
>>execute an exit which will boot back into multi-user mode. 
>>All rc scripts will be re-initilized and you won't have to 
>>reboot the entire system (be sure to only do this on the 
>>console obviously)...
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>Olivier Nicole wrote:
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>>Maybe you can try to unload the screen saver module and 
>>reload it, look at kldload(8), kldstat(8) and kldunload(8)
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>Matt, Oliver: 
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>Thanks! I found that the shutdown/exit worked fine for changing 
>the blanktime, but it wouldn't change the logo unless the logo 
>was first unloaded using first kldstat and then kldunload. I 
>needed guidance from both of you, thanks very much!
>
>Jay O'Brien
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Day late and a dollar short here, I imagine, but let's not
forget that in some instances, you have make targets for
restarts and that ilk; you can also in many instances give
a HUP signal...

Whether or not that would have helped Jay with his
screensaver, I dunno.

Kevin Kinsey