How forcing a new config-file read

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At 11:47 AM 7/14/98 +0200, Henning Paschke wrote:
>Hello,
>
>every day i change 'ansage.rmd' and 'voice.conf' via cron. The reason for
>doing this, is using different messages and rings. But how can i force a
>new reading of 'voice.conf' to activate the other settings?

You could just kill off the running vgetty process with SIGUSR2, for instance:

kill -SIGUSR2 `cat /var/run/mg-pid.ttyXX`

/var/run might be /etc or some other directory depending on how you built
mgetty

According to the mgetty code, it will exit if it's just waiting for a call,
and will finish its current processing otherwise (and automatically restart
afterwards, like usual)

	- john romkey		romkey@apocalypse.org
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