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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:44:41 +0100
From:      "Per olof Ljungmark" <peo@intersonic.se>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to restart a frozen getty
Message-ID:  <3E6CC0F9.80808@intersonic.se>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030310090846.00bd0138@mail.servplex.com>
References:  <5.2.0.9.2.20030310090846.00bd0138@mail.servplex.com>

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Peter Elsner wrote:
> Try CTRL-J (3 times)
> type: stty sane hit CTRL-J again...
> 
> DO NOT HIT ENTER on any of these..
> 
> That should release it...

Would that be from the console or from any terminal?

>> I have experienced situations where the HylaFAX faxgetty process hangs 
>> beyond all efforts to restart it. Usually a "kill -HUP 1 <PID>" would 
>> suffice but sometimes it freezes completely.
>>
>> How can I fix this without rebooting which is rather difficult as same 
>> machine is our smb-server?
>>
>> 4.7-RELEASE, hylafax 4.1.5, /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa0




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