On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:51:46 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Matthias Hanft <m...@hanft.de> wrote: > > Dale wrote: > >> > >> I do it this way. > >> pkill agetty > >> Simple, quick and easy to remember. One could script it I guess??? > > > > I'm pretty sure this would work, but is there something which would > > start them again? As far as I understand, these are the processes > > that provide console login - correct? Normally, I log in using ssh > > via network, but I would be a little upset if I couldn't log in at > > the console any more... > > > > Agetty is started by init, so it will be restarted if it dies. > sysvinit does all of about 3 things in total, and this is one of them.
Would not you have to do this for each device, so maybe killall agetty or some such? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com