Restarting the GUI remotely

Mar 18, '01 07:23:41PM

Contributed by: robg

If your GUI ever locks up completely, and you have access to another machine, you may be able to repair it remotely. Telnet (or SSH) in, open a terminal, and do "ps -aux". Look for loginwindow.app in the list, note the PID number, and then "kill -9" that PID.

This should restart your GUI so you can use your machine again.

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