On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:20:14PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> How do you kill xdm?
> (apart from kill -9 pid)
>
> I have a very fast respawning xdm on a recent RH70 (server)
> installation. Unfortunately, it just spawns the Xfree login window,
> gives incorrect password amd asks for it all again. I'm still head
> scratching as to where it is respawning itself from.
The respawning is probably from /etc/inittab.
Stopping a runaway xdm process initially can be done by changing to a
text terminal and then 'telinit 3' to get a more appropriate runlevel
for debugging (but I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, Terry).
Malcolm
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