Responding to myself to provide a bit of additional information: Shérab (2015/08/20 14:19 +0200): > Dear all, > > I'm observing something with brltty that I do not understand. > The brltty that is started at boot is configured one way, but if I do > /etc/init.d/brltty stop && sleep 2 && /etc/init.d/brltty start > > Then I get an instance of brltty that is configured differently. > > As if the two processes were not using the same preferences file.
Indeed. The brltty that is run at boot time uses /etc/brltty.prefs, whereas the brltty started manually uses /var/lib/brltty/brltty.pres. So what remains to be understood is why it is so and any idea on this point will be warmly appreciated. Shérab.