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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: killing xdm
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<<On Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:31:53 -0400 (EDT), "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com> said:

> 	kill defaults to kill -HUP.   sending a HUP to xdm causes it to 
> "reset the server, closing all  client  connections".  

Erm, no.

     The kill utility sends the TERM signal to the processes specified by the
     pid operand(s).


-GAWollman

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