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From: vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD1.0-Amiga getty trouble
Date: 30 Jan 1995 14:32:59 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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Keywords: NetBSD getty Amiga
twallace@panix.com (Thomas Wallace) writes:
>Cu responds with permission denied, line busy. So who has the line? ps -j
>tells of .../libexec/getty -s. I try killing the pesky bugger but another
>starts on the line as if spawned from the loins of a deamon. The question
>is: How do I gain back control of the serial port?
This daemon is none other then init(8) ;-) You should edit /etc/ttys,
mark the entry for tty00 as 'off', and do a "kill -HUP 1" (all as root,
naturally). Then you can kill the getty process, and it won't come
back.
- Frank
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Frank van der Linden, vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl
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