Re: Terminals on a serial line

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From: Matthew Purvis
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 00:00

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On 23 Nov 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> >to me like a likely candidate for sharing. Which is what I do. So if I
> >want to use the serial terminal, I uncomment the line in /etc/inittab
> >and reboot. If I want X-Windows, I comment the line in /etc/inittab
> 
> And Reboot? "kill -HUP 1" will do what you want. See "man init".

I just re-read the inittab with "telinit q" and then kill getty if it's
still running.


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        Matt

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