I found that /usr/sbin/gdm-restart will also do the trick. thanks,
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Ron Loftin <relof...@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 16:59 -0700, grace rante wrote: > > > > Does anybody know how to restart X in centos 5.3? /etc/init.d/gdm | > > xdm seems to be missing. > > > > Those scripts never existed. GDM runs from an entry in /etc/inittab, > not from an "rc" script. You should have these two lines > in /etc/inittab: > > # Run xdm in runlevel 5 > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > > So if you have a need to restart X, do "telinit 3 ; telinit 5" and that > will stop and start the gdm process. > > > thanks, > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- > Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com > > "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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