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Probably don't need to reboot
Authored by: zigong on Jul 27, '03 10:36:20AM
That's true for GNU/linux, but not for BSD family. From "init" man page (init is the "mother of all processes", which in particular read the tty file to start getty on turned on lines):
Line status (on, off, secure, getty, or window information) may be
changed in the ttys file without a reboot by sending the signal SIGHUP to
init with the command ``kill -s HUP 1''.
but according to the man page, you still need to logout and back in for init to actually process changes.

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