[BusyBox] Can init reread inittab?

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Jan 25 16:16:03 UTC 2002


On Fri Jan 25, 2002 at 04:28:03PM +0100, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> I'm using latest cvs.
> 
> Is there a way to force init reread the inittab?
> 
> I want to discover if the system has serial ports, and if so enable mgetty.
> If I enable mgetty and there's no serial ports it starts flooding syslog and
> eats all free space. I'd like not to shut up mgetty logging, because it may
> be useful.

Just run 'init -q' and it should re-read inittab.

 -Erik

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