Restarting rc.conf

Ruben de Groot mail25 at bzerk.org
Fri Nov 26 06:58:29 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed:

> This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has
> been removed from rc.conf). Therefore I think this is better:
> 
>  foreach dir in /etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d
>  do
>    cd $dir
>    foreach file in *
>    do
>      $file forcestop
>      $file start
>    done
>  done

Have you actually tested this? I think not. (Hint: look at the scripts that
are in /etc/rc.d and what they actually do. Then RTM rcorder(8).)


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