pause vgetty

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:28:38 +0100

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Hi,

On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 02:33:05AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 08:22:23PM +0100, Henning Eiben wrote:
> > Is there any way to do something like that with vgetty?
> Use the standard Un*x way to do this: killall -STOP vgetty
> and to resume operation: killall -CONT vgetty

While that would work, I wouldn't do it - when vgetty is CONTinued, it
will get all the "old" RING messages from the serial port buffer, and
will be very very confused.  Most likely it will start talking to your
dial tone...

gert
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