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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.112!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to break out of XDM??? Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:06:25 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <hh3jp5.eb.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.970703211552.5450A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test58 (13 May 97) Originator: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43943 In article <Pine.A32.3.91.970703211552.5450A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net>, Keith W. <kwoody@citytel.net> wrote: > >Dont know how to do this, but I finally got X to work runing XDM as root >.. Works fine I login in as myself, benn having a dandy time playing >around. But how in the gol-darned does one quit X? You can kill the >seesion and log back into X, but how do you kill it completely to get >back to the command line? Switch over to one of the virtual terminals (CTL-ALT-Fn) and login as root. ps ax | egrep "xdm|X" Then kill those ID's (xdm first, then X). At least, that's how I do it. There may be a better way. -- Conrad Sabatier FreeBSD user since 06/96, because... http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads "The best things in life are free"