How forcing a new config-file read

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Hi,

John Romkey wrote:
> >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`

As a shortcut for that:

# kvg -USR2 ttyXX

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

kvg "should know".

> 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)

Correct.

gert

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