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How can i restart the console getty without rebooting the system on HPUX 11.0

Normally it will be stated by ps -ef | grep getty

console 0:00 /usr/sbin/getty console console


many thanx

You can simply kill the getty PID. It will respawn because of the line in the /etc/inittab. Similary to this:

cons:123456:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty console console # system console

The respawn function allows for it to be restarted if it is killed. This is good to do if the console gets hung for some reason.

/usr/sbin/getty should be spawned from /etc/inittab. Make sure you have an entry for it in the latter file and ensure that the third field (fields are delimited by the ":" character) is "respawn". The 2nd field relates to the run level in which the command in 4th field is executed.

Killing the PID of the "/usr/sbin/getty console console" process should cause it to respawn. To confirm it has, the PID will be different.

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Sorry Kelam, we apparently posted at the exact same time. I did not realise you had already furnished the solution

logoff and logon!!

as far as I know, getty is started by init and is thus the second process in the init -> getty -> login -> shell sequence on hp-ux... since getty is a parent to your logon shell.. killing and restarting getty amounts to loging off and logon...

you need not reboot the entire system to restart getty...

Cheers!
Vishnu.

It worked. Many thanx. Your are great. To reload the /etc/inittab I issued the command init q, which caused the system to re-examine the file and start a getty process. The proces was dead.