On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jim Hatridge wrote:
Hi all;
Got a question!, Sometimes when I'm playing around with new programs my keyboard locks up. Nothing works, I can only change to another termal (i.e. alt-FX). So far the only way I could get the screen usable again was by rebooting (shutdown now -r) from another termal.
The question is: is there a way to force a logout from another term?
To answer your question: yes, kill the login process ps -a (look at the pid for /bin/login -- user) kill <pid> That will force a logout on that term. Actually, it won't be a real logout, but close enough. Now _I_ have a question for you: How can you switch terms if the keyboard is locked? Do you mean that you can't see what your typing? If so, that is a common problem - some programmers forget to return to a sane state. Just enter stty sane and you should be fine. The Wildman ------- There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e