Re: [SLUG] Logoff console -- from ssh login?

From: ronan (ronan@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 06:41:54 EDT


Mark Polhamus wrote:

> How do you cleanly exit the current Gnome session (logoff the console)
> when you don't have physical access to the machine (but do have root
> access)? (or when your X session is locked up by a misbehaving app.
> but you can switch to a virtual console -- same question, really).
>
> I remember trying this a long while ago and getting Gnome all wrapped
> around the axle after killing various processes.

You might want to Google for help on the "gnome-session" and
"gnome-session-remove" commands. Those binaries are on my system
(/usr/bin), but there are no 'man' pages for them. I am just guessing
that they might do what you need.

--ronan

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