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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Shutting down XFree86-2.0 Date: 8 Feb 1994 09:54:22 -0500 Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2j892u$cqt@sparc10.entropic.com> References: <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc10.entropic.com In article <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu>, <twallace@mason1.gmu.edu> wrote: >How do I shut down XFree86-2.0 gracefully? I keep being thrown back to >my console screen, but the machine does not respond to any commands. Redirect xinit's output to a file or /dev/null, ie - xinit >& /dev/null (Note that I still sometimes get an unresponsive keyboard after exiting X; I don't know why.) --Ken