From: Rogier Wolff (wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl)
Date: 12/16/92


From: wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Re: HELP - Need to log in through serial port
Date: 16 Dec 1992 08:20:11 GMT

zzulich@ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Thomas Ulich) writes:

>Usually it's easy to do:

>Just edit the file /etc/inittab. Therein you'll find a commented line that
>says something like:
[deleted]

>Finally you have to reboot your Linux to get the things working.

Not needed. To have your additions to /etc/inittab take effect you
can also issue the command
        kill -1 1
This will send the HUP signal to the init process, which will
then re-read /etc/inittab. (you have to be root to do this).

                                        Roger

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