[PLUG] A remote admin question

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Mar 30 11:59:03 UTC 2003


On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Mark Martin wrote:

> I can't tell you why the method you described causes trouble.  However, I 
> thought I'd mention that just sending a SIGHUP to the X process, i.e.
> 
> kill -1 pid_of_X_process
> 
> or
> 
> kill -HUP pid_of_X_process
> 
> will log her off without having to kill all of those other processes 
> individually.
 
Mark,

  That would bring up the bash prompt. No one here goes directly to the GUI;
sometimes it's just easier to do a few simple tasks from the console.

Thanks,

Rich 

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