On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 03:13 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:16 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:24 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:01 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > > > > > > > > You probably will have to restart after running the configuration widget > > > > though - I was never able to figure out how to gently restart kdm and I > > > > presume gdm is similar without restarting the computer. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Couldn't you just "init 3" in a root terminal and login command line > > > mode, then enter "init 5" to restart gracefully? > > ---- > > sure - and if you wanted to do it faster, init 1 and then init 5 but > > your suggestion doesn't alter the fact that it doesn't gently restart > > kdm. > > > > nice of you to toss in a relatively worthless point 2 days after the > > fact tho' > > It doesn't? I thought it did. I wouldn't have bothered to post if I didn't. > Ah, just checked, it's gpm listed in services. My bad. I'll hazard a > half-baked guess to init 3 and from there enter gdm-restart or > gdm-safe-restart, according to what the man page sez. Luckily, I haven't > borked that up yet to try. Not sure I'd attempt it while still in level > 5 though. Ric ---- I kept trying to sigkill kdm gently but it didn't work until I did it with prejudice (signal 9) at which point, all of the ltsp users were kicked off...it wasn't pretty. Craig
