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[markzero]

> Actually, I have a question.  I'm in the middle of upgrading my 
> dataserver, and I'm building ports on ttyv2,3&5.  I have xdm 
> running on ttyv8.  I just finished installing wdm (on ttyv4) and 
> I edited /etc/ttys to run wdm on ttyv8 instead of xdm.  Is there 
> a way to reset ttyv8 so that it loads wdm without rebooting (or 
> otherwise mess up what I'm doing on the other v consoles)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 

Have you tried just killing xdm? 


Otherwise, the handbook says that

# kill -HUP 1

will cause init to re-read /etc/ttys but as I've never needed to do this
I'm not sure if it will disrupt anything.

Mark

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