On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Matthias Hanft <m...@hanft.de> wrote: > Dale wrote: >> >> I do it this way. >> pkill agetty >> Simple, quick and easy to remember. One could script it I guess??? > > I'm pretty sure this would work, but is there something which would > start them again? As far as I understand, these are the processes > that provide console login - correct? Normally, I log in using ssh > via network, but I would be a little upset if I couldn't log in at > the console any more... >
Agetty is started by init, so it will be restarted if it dies. sysvinit does all of about 3 things in total, and this is one of them. -- Rich