Originally posted by sourdaisy
Nope, won't cause a problem at all. And rebooting has nothing to do with it. In fact, the only time you need to reboot is if you recompile the kernel.
I typically restart ssh with

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`

so I figured that was enough...I don't however know if the startup from rc.conf was successfully changed

I will take you word for it since you are much more experienced