On Tuesday, April 10, 2001, at 12:43  am, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> If I want to make a change to either /etc/hosts or /etc/rc.conf after
>> the system has booted, can I restart a process to make them be re-read?
>
> AFAIK:
>
> /etc/hosts isn't cached -- changes you make there should be immediate.

Yes, I just verified that myself. Thanks.

> /etc/rc.conf changes demand a reboot, since it determines startup 
> settings.

This is annoying as I wish to change the domain associated with the 
machine for email purposes, but was quite enjoying my uptime.

Is there any other way around this?

Thanks for advises. All the best.

Matthew