[CentOS] /etc/init.d/gdm for centos5

[grace rante]

I found that /usr/sbin/gdm-restart will also do the trick.

thanks,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Ron Loftin <reloftin at 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,
> >
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