Here is the question:
> We have a DEC 3000-600 running under OSF/1 v.3.0B and are facing with
> a windows system halt on the console when the machine is loaded with
> four or more background programs. The problem occurs when an eventual
> user logout console with a loaded machine and then it shortly looses
> its windows system, becoming a common terminal. We have overcome the
> problem by renicing background programs to -p 10 but even with this
> measure we sometimes loose console. The question is: Is there a way
> to reactivate the windows system without having to reboot the machine?
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And here comes the prompt reply from Dr. Tom Blinn:
/sbin/init.d/xdm stop to stop the X Windows System
/sbin/init.d/xdm start to re-start it.
If it's died, you probably will need to do a stop before you do a start so
that the script can clean up some things (like the record of the pid of the
process that's running xdm) before it will restart things.
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation
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Received on Sun Aug 06 1995 - 00:28:14 NZST