From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 11:42:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA24046 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:42:48 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA24037 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:42:35 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id OAA11728; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:31:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:31:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: killing xdm To: Wayne Hernandez cc: questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Sep 1995, Wayne Hernandez wrote: > I have been unsuccessful in killing xdm. I have commented out my > /etc/ttys entry and did a kill -HUP 1, then tried to kill the deamons, > but they keep restarting. > > I used kill `ps -awx| grep xdm | cut -c 1-6`, but that is not fast > enough, as I keep getting messages that the ps jobs do not exist. kill defaults to kill -HUP. sending a HUP to xdm causes it to "reset the server, closing all client connections". use TERM to terminate the server > Any other ideas. It's seems to be slowing down my backups. huh...xdm is slowing down your backups?? i dont understand. xdm does not affect the speed of my backups. i guess that i should test this tonight. Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346