Re: Stopping and restarting mgetty.

Greets, I have the following line in /etc/inittab: S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some parameter) and restart it again ? Try 'kill -HUP' init damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave

Re: Stopping and restarting mgetty.

Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try 'kill -HUP' init I don't think this will work unless you make changes to /etc/inittab before killing init with -HUP. The best way to do what he wants is to do killall -TERM mgetty. This will kill all running mgetty's and init will respawn them

Stopping and restarting mgetty.

I have the following line in /etc/inittab: S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some parameter) and restart it again ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Stopping and restarting mgetty.

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