Re: getty and inittab

2002-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Narins, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think "init q" re-reads inittab. Correct. >But, a long time ago, on a job, I did "init -q" on a SysV box, or was it >BSD? Regardless, it was the wrong one, and I rebooted all our production >machines in the middle of a run

Re: getty and inittab

2002-12-27 Thread Niclas Söderlund
At 15:32 2002-12-27, you wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 03:16:05PM +0100, Niclas S?derlund wrote: > [snip] As for the gettys, they were started with "respawn" in inittab, right? If so, init will respawn them when they die. 'kill -HUP 1' will cause init to reread its configuration file, killing the

Re: getty and inittab

2002-12-27 Thread Richard Kreuter
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 03:16:05PM +0100, Niclas S?derlund wrote: > > if I need to remove all of the tty's except number one, I suppose I just > comment out the 2-6 tty's in inittab. But how do I kill off the five > already running getty's ? If I try a kill -9 I only get a new fresh > restarted

RE: getty and inittab

2002-12-27 Thread Narins, Josh
IGNORE THIS MESSAGE! I think "init q" re-reads inittab. But, a long time ago, on a job, I did "init -q" on a SysV box, or was it BSD? Regardless, it was the wrong one, and I rebooted all our production machines in the middle of a run. So, that's why I say you should ignore me telling you to is