rc.conf reloaded

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-03-15 19:31, Bernt Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> wrote:
> Jeff Wirth skrev:
> >FAQs for FreeBSD:
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#REREAD-RC
> >
> >Recent thread on freebsd-questions: (reload rc.conf without rebooting)
> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-March/thread.html#79339
>
> Thanks Jeff. It seems like one can't reload rc.conf from an ssh
> session.  Well. That's that i suppose. Thank you ALL for the input.

Yes, you can't "reload" rc.conf.  It doesn't make sense, because rc.conf
is not "loaded" after a system has brought itself up.  It only serves as
a useful collection of options and is parsed (mostly) at startup time by
some of the startup scripts.

If you have some specific changes to rc.conf in mind that you need to
apply without a reboot, it's usually possible.  We'd have to know what
the exact changes were though, before any meaningful response could be
written.

- Giorgos