reload rc.conf during boot process

From: Markie (mark.cullen_at_dsl.pipex.com)
Date: 09/21/04

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:26:38 +0100

    Is it possible to do this somehow?

    I was trying my hand out at C and made a cool little menu for myself. It
    looks for files in /etc/ which are named rc.conf.xxxxx and lists them in
    the menu. Then, when you select one on boot, it copies the selected
    configuration file to rc.conf. I put my program in... the rc.d mount
    script, so that the disk is mounted writeable at the time and my C program
    is able to issue cp (bad way I know) to replace rc.conf. After running my
    program in the rc.d mount script I then did a

    . /etc/rc.conf

    but rc.conf doesn't get reloaded. The file is being copied over, as when I
    reboot it starts using the copied over configuration. I am not sure if .
    /etc/rc.conf is supposed to load a file in? I just saw it in some other
    script and assumed that's what it was doing.

    Thanks in advance

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