On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jeffrey Flowers wrote:

> After making some changes to configuration files like /etc/rc.conf, what is
> the best way of making that change effective? I have been rebooting to make
> that happen but I know that there must be an easier (better) way. The only
> thing I have heard suggested was to drop down to single user mode and then
> back to multi-user.
> 
> Any better suggestions then that?

Jeffrey,

If you changing the parameters for a running service, you can:

1. kill -HUP [PID of the running service], or
2. restart the service like -->

	# /usr/pkg/sbin/apachectl 'restart'
	(restart apache)

-- 
Cheers!

Randy

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