On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Mark Quitoriano wrote: > i setup an mgettty+sendfax on whitebox as a personal ras server. I > want to make a schedule that my ras server only answer in a specific > time like 7pm-5am i tried to cron killall mgetty on those specific > time but the mgetty keep coming back.
well the reason is that the config is in the inittab file and it makes it persistent...that is if it kills it, it will restart... I used to do that long time ago...on an SCO Xenix machine I created 2 inittab files, one with the mgetty on and the other one off with filnames inittab.on and inittab.off...run a cron job to mv the inittab.xxx file to inittab and issue a kill -1 1 that was until I find out that there was a command called enable/disable in SCO Xenix ... he he -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
