On 27/05/15 18:58, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2015 10:50:25 +0200 > Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > >> L'octidi 8 prairial, an CCXXIII, Petter Adsen a écrit : >>> Well, then I would expect something like "sudo pkill gdm" might >>> work. >> >> Closing services cleanly would be better advice. >> >> "systemctl stop gdm.service" for systemd. >> >> "service gdm stop" for SysV. > > You are of course absolutely correct, but I've never used Debian 6, so I > didn't know the correct way to handle services there. > > BTW; is there any real difference in this case? Won't both approaches > simply send a HUP or TERM signal to the PID of gdm?
Doing so via the init system means the PID files get cleaned up and thus the init scripts *know* gdm has been stopped. If you go behind its back, the PID file might get left behind, then you'll have a disagreement between the reality and what the init scripts understand reality to be. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5565888e.9090...@longlandclan.yi.org
