On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 18:15, Rob Bongiovi wrote: > > Hi! I'm not very experienced in Linux and need some > > help with something. > > <snip> > > > But, I can't figure out either without quickly getting > > confused. If someone could help me, I'd appreciate it. > > Here's what I want to do: > > > > #First kill any mythfrontend process that is running > > sudo killall mythfrontend > > #<insert logout or restart X command here> > > sudo mythfrontend -l /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log > > & > > Firstly ISTR Jarod has a section with a 'restart' script and how to link it > to your remote, base a script on that. > > The exact syntax depends on your distro but there is a rc script that > starts (or stops X), it's called xdm (on suse anyway), call that with > restart and it'll kill X and then restart it. > ISTR fedora has a program/script called service which allows you to run rc > scripts, suse has links from them in /sbin or /usr/sbin (for > example /usr/sbin/rcxdm -> /etc/init.d/xdm), other distros may have > something different or nothing at all (you have to call the script > directly). I'm assuming you're using fedora and going for /sbin/service (at > least I _think_ it's in /sbin ;-) ) > > Create a little script something like: > > #/bin/bash > sudo killall mythfrontend > sudo /sbin/service xdm restart
If using RH/Fedora, there is no xdm startup script, its launched from inittab, so simply killing X will restart the login manager. > (obviously check it'll work from a ssh/console session first) > > If you need to load/unload things (for example if your driver is buggy) go > for something like (obviously 'a-framebuffer-module' should be replaced by > the module you need to reload): > > #/bin/bash > sudo killall mythfrontend > sudo /sbin/service xdm stop > sudo rmmod a-framebuffer-module > sudo modprobe a-framebuffer-module > sudo /sbin/service xdm start Change the xdm stop to "init 3" and the xdm start to "init 5" to achieve this on RH/FC. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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