How to execute /etc/rc.conf

[Alain De Vos]

How to execute /etc/rc.conf after boot

 

[SirDice]

You don't. Normally you would simply use service(8) command to stop/start/restart a specific service.

One way to kind of, sort of, restart, is to drop to single user mode and exit that.

 

[covacat]

you don't
its supposed to only have variable assignments anyway which are used by various startup scripts
you can of course sh /etc/rc.conf but won't accomplish anything

 

[Phishfry]

service -R

 

[Phishfry]

That don't really restart all services just enabled services in usr/local/etc/rc.d it appears.

-R Restart all enabled local services.

 

[Phishfry]

Maybe you could make a script and scrape service -e and do a 'service scraped restart' script.

'service kldxref' sounds tricky. I doubt you can do this. devmatch is run by devd so....

I would trust your Zen masters. You can restart some services but all is probably not going to work.

 

[Phishfry]

One way to kind of, sort of, restart, is to drop to single user mode and exit that.

How can you drop to Single User Mode without rebooting?

 

[covacat]

init 1

 

[Phishfry]

I see that now.....Thx

How to get back to multi user level/mode with init?

I have to frequently use init 1 to get to single user mode but after that I can't get back to multi user mode as we do in Linux or sysv type init (#init 3). Is there any such option? Thank you.

forums.freebsd.org

 

[Phishfry]

That is pretty incredible keeping uptime stats while soft-booting....

 

[leebrown66]

How to execute /etc/rc.conf after boot

/etc/rc

But I'm willing to bet it's not what you want.

 

[bakul]

How to execute /etc/rc.conf after boot

You can "execute" it with sh /etc/rc.conf but it won't do anything useful for you! Essentially it contains variables which are needed/used by/enable various scripts in /etc/rc.d/ directory. Pick any script in /etc/rc.d/ and try to understand its logic to gain a better understanding.