Subject: Re: tty problems with Jan11 kernel
To: Jon Buller <jonb@metronet.com>
From: Matthias Pfaller <leo@dachau.marco.de>
List: port-pc532
Date: 01/21/1997 13:02:59
Jon Buller wrote:
> much CPU time. The reason I didn't figure it out earlier is that
> I was changing /etc/ttys, typing "kill -HUP 1" and then killing
> the getty process on the tty I was testing. This was not enough
> to make any change on the port, I had to do a full reboot.
The reason for this is that local/softcar isn't interpreted by init but
by ttyflags(8) which is run by /etc/rc. Just rrun "ttyflags -a" and you
won't have to reboot.
Matthias
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