From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 11 8:12: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts22.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF7937B41A for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from d.tracker ([64.231.221.63]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020211161256.WRZB18809.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@d.tracker> for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:12:56 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1BG44Y03222 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:04:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:04:04 -0500 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: question about restarting getty Message-ID: <20020211110404.A3218@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have reconfigured a getty in /etc/ttys, and then killed the running getty, hoping the newly configured one would start, but instead the old getty starts up again. Does anyone know what I can do to start the new getty without shutting down and restarting the machine? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message