On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:12 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 06:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
That's the right setting, but you (sometimes) need to completely restart X (or maybe only kdm?) for any changes in Xaccess to take effect.
I wasn't sure how to restart kdm so I did a yum update and rebooted and will be in the office in an hour or so and will try it.
I presume that there was some way to send a SIGHUP to the kdm process to restart it but I lacked the knowledge on how to do that.
The method I use to restart X is usually: login (to console) as root telinit 3 telinit 5 logout
---- yeah, I had that option but it had been a long time since I rebooted and several new kernels had been installed in the interim.
in this case, this was a fairly heavily used server and telinit 3/telinit 5 might have made users using the Application Server (apache/rubyOnRails/postgreSQL/etc) pretty unhappy