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Re: terminals



On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:26:45AM +0200, ulla.russell@pp.inet.fi wrote:
> You missed a few letters the command is '/sbin/telinit q'.
> 
> At 17:12 15.1.2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7.  At least I *think*
> >> you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one.  But this should at
> >
> >I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-read the inittab.

That's the one.  I just tried it out - added another four VT's.  I did
find that just 'telinit q' worked - /sbin is in root's path by default
as I remember.  And doing telinit as a regular user doesn't work here.
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