Re: Stopping X?

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel execpc com>]

At 04:10 PM 2/29/00 -0500, Rick Shank wrote:
>How can I safely stop X and gdm while I'm in run level 5, without doing an
>init to level 3.  How is this possible w/o losing my running processes
>(this is a production server).
>
>
>Thanks,
>~Rick Shank
>
>
Rick,
	Edit /etc/inittab, and comment out the line starting with x:5:repawn.
Then send init a SIGHUP.  (kill -SIGHUP 1 will probably do it.)
You can then exit from X - logout from the X secession, or
ctrl-alt-backspace...

Mikkel

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