how to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the mgetty process?

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rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King) writes:

> Stefan Hornburg writes:
> > miernik@blue.cft.edu.pl (Miernik) writes:
> > > In FAQ.gz you write: Send the SIGUSR1 signal to the mgetty process.
> > > How to do that?
> > 
> > kill -SIGUSR1 `/sbin/pidof mgetty`
> 
> If you're using Linux, killall -USR1 mgetty works just as well.  However,
> if you've got several mgettys running, then this will send USR1 to all.

This is right. I assumed that the original poster runs mgetty only one
("the mgetty process").

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