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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:31:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
To:        Wayne Hernandez <hernanw@FSL.ORST.EDU>
Cc:        questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: killing xdm
Message-ID:  <Pine.3.89.9509211451.U3125-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950921105000.8429A-100000@cornus.FSL.ORST.EDU>

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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.

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