how to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the mgetty process?

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Hi,

On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 11:27:18PM -0600, Robert J. Brown wrote:
>     Stefan> miernik@blue.cft.edu.pl (Miernik) writes:
>     >> In FAQ.gz you write: Send the SIGUSR1 signal to the mgetty
>     >> process.  How to do that?
> 
>     Stefan> kill -SIGUSR1 `/sbin/pidof mgetty`
> 
> This is unsafe if there is more than one instance of mgetty running.
> Better to do a:
> 
>     ps -ax | grep mgetty
> 
> and look for the desired line.

kill -SIGUSR1 `cat /var/run/mg-pid.ttyS0`

(depending where you're putting the PID files to, and how they are
named).

gert
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