On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Michael Rice wrote:


> The best way to get out of  xdm depends on how it was started.
> 
> If you typed 'xdm' at a root shell, you can just 'killall xdm'
> 
> If, however, you use the /etc/inittab method, init will just re-spawn xdm
> for you -- you need to tell it not to.
> 
> Edit /etc/inittab and comment out the line on which xdm is referenced,
> then kill -HUP your init process (usually 1).
> 
> This will tell init to reread the file, and it should shut down xdm for
> you.

Or you could run 'init 3' from a root shell, which is probably safer
than modifying  your inittab for no reason... ;)

RHP
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