How to make configuration changes without a reboot?
Olivier Nicole
on at cs.ait.ac.th
Mon Nov 15 05:03:00 GMT 2004
> 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)
Maybe you can try to unload the screen saver module and reload it,
look at kldload(8), kldstat(8) and kldunload(8)
Olivier
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