From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 3 9:23:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900CF155D6 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:23:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12335; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:46:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:46:53 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Michel TALON Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: init In-Reply-To: <19991103180333.A72444@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Michel TALON wrote: > I have a strange problem with respect to kill -HUP 1 > In fact i have commented out mgetty on /dev/cuaa1 in /etc/ttys > and run kill -HUP 1 in order to reload ttys. Even if i do > killall mgetty this program is still continually respawned. > It seems that init does not reload ttys when receiving HUP, > contrary to what man page says and what is usual. Is this a known bug > I am running > FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 20 Don't comment them out, set them to 'off' otherwise init can forget about them. > Moreover i have a second problem related to this one. I wanted to test > a modem (of rockwell type) under ppp. When i issue term at the > ppp prompt, the modem seems irresponsive. For example atz gives nothing. > However under minicomm the modem correctly answers the at commands > and dials. Finally i have another modem (US robotics sportster) which > works correctly under ppp. I thought that the modem was confused > by mgetty, so tried to disable it and found the above strange behaviour. > I would be happy to get some help. Hopefully the above will help. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message