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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dialing Up a box?
Date: 7 Jun 1995 13:10:22 +0200
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J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
(yeah, that's me :)
>Refer to the man pages ttys(5) and gettytab(5) for explanations.
I forgot to mention init(8). This is important since init is
monitoring /etc/ttys and spawning the getty's, and you need to tell
init about a change in /etc/ttys by sending a hangup signal (``kill
-HUP 1'').
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)