On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Armen Babikyan wrote:

> setting up a dialup shell involves playing with the getty. look at
> /etc/ttys, and change the entries for tty00 (modem port) and tty01(printer
> port).
> 
> to set up a pppdaemon (which i never did because i never needed to) you'd
> first shut off the getty in /etc/ttys (if you turned it on to make a shell
> login) and reboot (you don't even need to reboot, but you might be safer
> doing so). 

Actually, all you need to do after modifying /etc/ttys is:

	kill -HUP 1

Sending the HUP signal to init causes it to reprocess the ttys file,
starting any new gettys needed and getting rid of any that aren't needed
any more.


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