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From: das15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Douglas A Scott)
Subject: Re: NextStep -> X tranfer problem
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 20:39:59 GMT

For times when I need to just kill the entire X apparatus, when it gets stuck,
I just wrote the following script, which I set to setuid root:

#!/bin/sh
kill -9 `ps aux | grep 'X -MachLaunch' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
kill -9 `ps aux | grep XNeXT | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
sleep 10
showcurs

This kills off everything and lets you start over.

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