This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=_7C268706.ACCDB967 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks to all who responded (a very long list). I wasn't clear in = describing the problem. On boot up I would get the login screen, but on = log in I only got a terminal window. This window was not resizable or = movable. I could open new terminal windows. There was no background menu = and no toolbar. The cause was network problems. So what I needed was the = ability to log out of this state and log on to open windows or as another = user without rebooting.=20 The following is what I ended up using ps -eaf|grep -i Xsession and then = kill -9 <process-id> This brought me back to the login screen. The command I was looking for is dtaction ExitSession. I tried this on a = machine that was working and it came back with the confirmation dialog box = which is what you see on a typical logout. Unfortunately, on the box with = the problem it could not return the confirmation dialog box. I have looked = to see if I could find where the confirmation dialog box is actually = disabled (not just the GUI front end) and haven't found it yet. There were a couple of other suggestions, but I didn't have time to try = them. Once again Thanks Don Bricker Information Systems Analyst Illinois Environmental Protection Agency 1021 North Grand Avenue East Mail Code #32 Springfield, IL 62794-9276 Donald.Bricker@epa.state.il.us (217) 558-2290 --=_7C268706.ACCDB967 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" http-equiv=3DContent-Type= > <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.3105.105" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT: 8pt MS Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px; MARGIN-TOP: = 2px"> <DIV><FONT size=3D1>Thanks to all who responded (a very long list). I = wasn't clear=20 in describing the problem. On boot up I would get the login screen, but on = log=20 in I only got a terminal window. This window was not resizable or movable. = I=20 could open new terminal windows. There was no background menu and no = toolbar.=20 The cause was network problems. So what I needed was the ability to log = out of=20 this state and log on to open windows or as another user without rebooting.= =20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D1>The following is what I ended up using <STRONG>ps = -eaf|grep -i=20 Xsession </STRONG>and then <STRONG>kill -9 <process-id> =20 </STRONG>This brought me back to the login screen.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D1></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D1>The command I was looking for is <STRONG>dtaction= =20 ExitSession. </STRONG>I tried this on a machine that was working and it = came=20 back with the confirmation dialog box which is what you see on a typical = logout.=20 Unfortunately, on the box with the problem it could not return the = confirmation=20 dialog box. I have looked to see if I could find where the confirmation = dialog=20 box is actually disabled (not just the GUI front end) and haven't found = it=20 yet.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D1>There were a couple of other suggestions, but I didn't = have=20 time to try them.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D1>Once again</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D1>Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D1>Don Bricker<BR>Information Systems Analyst<BR>Illinois= =20 Environmental Protection Agency<BR>1021 North Grand Avenue East<BR>Mail = Code=20 #32<BR>Springfield, IL 62794-9276<BR><A=20 href=3D"mailto:Donald.Bricker@epa.state.il.us">Donald.Bricker@epa.state.il.= us</A><BR>(217)=20 558-2290</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --=_7C268706.ACCDB967--Received on Wed Oct 17 21:03:20 2001
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