Invoking rc.conf changes w/o rebooting

walker, mick mick.walker at ctcmarine.com
Fri Jun 17 13:50:50 GMT 2005


Jonathan Arnold <mailto:jdarnold at buddydog.org> scribbled on 17 June 2005
13:48:

> I just upgraded webmin and it says it now needs :
> 
> webmin_enable="yes"
> 
> in the rc.conf. Do I need to reboot in order to have this
> take effect, or is there some way I can get the same effect
> without rebooting?

You can drop to ren level 1 using the command init 1.

Then set your shell and type 'exit'.
The system will then boot back into multiuser mode and reread all rc
scripts.

Mick Walker


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