<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 21, 2007 7:07 AM, lanas <<a href="mailto:lanas@securenet.net">lanas@securenet.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Folks,<br><br> When doing some 'work' on the box it is common to first terminate<br>mythfrontend but also sometimes to terminate the backend, and then to
<br>access remotely the filesystem for whatever purposes. When the work is<br>done, I once tried to simply restart the backend process - which it did<br>- but ran into problems with the frontend. So I had to reboot to get a
<br>clean system.<br><br> Is there a way to softboot the whole system (eg. some kind of 'kill<br>-HUP') instead of rebooting the box.</blockquote>
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<div>init 3 (switches to single user mode)</div>
<div>init 5 (switches to graphical mode)</div>
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<div>If you have your auto login set up correctly, this should restart X and put the UI back in place.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>