{"id":169,"date":"2008-02-19T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/19\/force-freebsd-to-run-startup-scripts-without-rebooting\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T20:51:17","slug":"force-freebsd-to-run-startup-scripts-without-rebooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/19\/force-freebsd-to-run-startup-scripts-without-rebooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Force FreeBSD to Run Startup Scripts Without Rebooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wondered about this for quite a while and eventually saw the answer while looking for other information. Sometimes I make a change to some startup files and I just want to rerun the startup without having to go through POST and all the other startup before the computer gets to the OS.<\/p>\n

With root privileges execute the command:
\nshutdown now<\/code><\/p>\n

This will give you a screen that looks like
\nEnter full pathname of shell or RETURN for \/bin\/sh:<\/code><\/p>\n

Press enter to select the shell. I’m not qualified to say if this is the same as booting into single user mode or not.<\/p>\n

Type
\nexit<\/code><\/p>\n

The system will run the startup scripts and ask you to log in just as usual!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wondered about this for quite a while and eventually saw the answer while looking for other information. Sometimes I make a change to some startup files and I just want to rerun the startup without having to go through POST and all the other startup before the computer gets to the OS.<\/p>\n

With root privileges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10],"tags":[68,111,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}