Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Matthias Hanft <m...@hanft.de> wrote: >> Dale wrote: >>> I do it this way. >>> pkill agetty >>> Simple, quick and easy to remember. One could script it I guess??? >> I'm pretty sure this would work, but is there something which would >> start them again? As far as I understand, these are the processes >> that provide console login - correct? Normally, I log in using ssh >> via network, but I would be a little upset if I couldn't log in at >> the console any more... >> > Agetty is started by init, so it will be restarted if it dies. > sysvinit does all of about 3 things in total, and this is one of them. >
Correct. I should have mentioned that in my post but assumed it would be known. Anytime agetty is killed, it just pops back up. I suspect it doesn't stay dead for even a second. Sort of like those zombie movies. lol Dale :-) :-)
