On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:51:46 -0400,
Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Matthias Hanft <[email protected]> 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.
Would not you have to do this for each device, so maybe killall agetty
or some such?
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