On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 10:44:31AM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Marc W. Brooks wrote: > > > At 01:09 PM 8/20/97 -0400, Paul wrote: > > >hi, x runs on console #7 you can go <control><alt><1> through<6> to get to > > >a regular prompt. > > >hope this helps. > > >Paul > > > > Thanks, I guess what I was really wondering is whether I can actually > > shutdown X and sit at the console. > > After shifting to the console on F1, as root, you may type > "/etc/init.d/xdm stop". This will shut down xdm. To restart it later, > you can use "/etc/init.d/xdm start". > > Syrus. >
Try pressing ctrl-R when looking at the XDM login screen. That should make XDM exit. Then type "/etc/init.d/xdm start" as root to restart it. Regards, Bengt-Ove! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .