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?

You can easily restart the daemons whose settings you've changed
one-at-time, using their rc.d scripts. Examples:

	/etc/rc.d/dhcpd restart
	/etc/rc.d/lpd stop
	/etc/rc.d/lpd start

See the man page for rc.d(8).

Frederick