Restarting rc.conf

David Jenkins david.jenkins at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 03:32:23 PST 2004


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:18:05 +0100, v.demartino2 at virgilio.it
<v.demartino2 at 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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