Re: a very persistant xdm
Simon (seva@null.cc.uic.edu)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:32:17 -0500 (CDT)
> When I try to kill xdm as root, it dies and immediately restarts
> itself as another process. I can't keep it dead long enough to
> try to start xdm by hand and try to get my friendly login screen
> back.
It's being started by init, you can swith to run level 3 until you fix the
problem by typing (as root):
# init 3
When you are done just type (as root):
# init 5
and you are back to xdm starting automagically...
/Simon