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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Restart agetty after update @world?
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 11:51:54
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nqQgP3VNB-zEgZyej9vsd9bhn7zk38Rs7AfJPNMfCMfw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Restart agetty after update @world? by Matthias Hanft
1 On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Matthias Hanft <mh@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > Dale wrote:
3 >>
4 >> I do it this way.
5 >> pkill agetty
6 >> Simple, quick and easy to remember. One could script it I guess???
7 >
8 > I'm pretty sure this would work, but is there something which would
9 > start them again? As far as I understand, these are the processes
10 > that provide console login - correct? Normally, I log in using ssh
11 > via network, but I would be a little upset if I couldn't log in at
12 > the console any more...
13 >
14
15 Agetty is started by init, so it will be restarted if it dies.
16 sysvinit does all of about 3 things in total, and this is one of them.
17
18 --
19 Rich

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Restart agetty after update @world? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Restart agetty after update @world? John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>