how to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the mgetty process?

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:42:47 +0000

Stefan Hornburg writes:
> miernik@blue.cft.edu.pl (Miernik) writes:
> > In FAQ.gz you write: Send the SIGUSR1 signal to the mgetty process.
> > How to do that?
> 
> kill -SIGUSR1 `/sbin/pidof mgetty`

If you're using Linux, killall -USR1 mgetty works just as well.  However,
if you've got several mgettys running, then this will send USR1 to all.
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