Re: How to log yourself out remotely of a session you forgot to log out of?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Adam Funk wrote:

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 05:00, Mike Fedyk wrote:

  

I don't think there is a "correct" way to do this. But what you did is
exactly what I would do as well. If you can use sudo un the machine in
question, just do
sudo /etc/init.r/{x|d|k}dm restart
to restart the login manager. Every running X session (and child
processes) will be killed that way.

      

I would not suggest restarting the login manager.  Any X app you are
running that has any state (think mozilla, openoffice, etc.) will not
get a chance to safely shutdown, and can cause corruption and/or lost
data.
    

So how do you log yourself out of an X session from another terminal
window?
  

Sending the TERM signal should do it.

If it causes problems, then the program has a bug.

Mike