Actually, a simple '/etc/rc.d/init/network reload' after swapping
out the config files does the trick. No need to reboot. I should
have known better. As Jamie said, "Rebooting is a windows thing." :)
-Rob.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:19:11AM -0800, Smith, Mike wrote:
| How about messing with the init levels? That way, you tell the box at
| boot-up to go to init 4, which you have set up as the extra
| configuration, and it runs your extra scripts. I don't know how this
| would hose up the distro stuff, or whatever admin tools you use, though.
|
| Overview of init levels.
| /etc/rc.d contains all of this. there is a file called inittab that is
| the configure file for all init levels. It's worth a look to see what
| goes on.
|
| rc.d also contains scripts such as serial or apache, which control
| starting and stopping each service that runs automatically. There are
| also directories named rcx.d, where x is a number for each init level.
| Each rcx.d contains links to the scripts in rc.d, and these are named
| S02serial, where S stands for start (or K for Kill), the number is what
| order to run these in (very important sometimes), and the serial stands
| for what service (SHOULD be the same as the script that it's linked to).
|
| --Mike
| Michael J. Smith
| Flyfisher, Russian Translator, and Linux-Geek-At-Large
