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Old 26th June 2008
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
Wouldn't it make sense to restart getty after killing it? aka, killall -HUP getty?
init will restart all the getty instances in /etc/ttys that are declared "on". as far as I can tell, getty doesn't make a distinction between SIGHUP and SIGTERM--both cause it to exit.
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