On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:57:55 -0600 (CST),
Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu> wrote:
> > Is there any way to kill the X server without having to use any menus?
> > (I screwed up my .fvwm2rc file and had to do a hard reboot... oops!)
> 
> Do you have any xterm's available?  If so, just do a ps and find the X 
> server.  Then you can do a:
> 
> kill -9 (process id of X here)
> 
> and that should take care of it.

I think it's better to give it a chance to clean up.  -9 should be the
last resort when you can never kill the server with other signals.

This applies more or less to other daemon/server processes, I believe.

Ken