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Re: Latest X ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sun Nov 1 16:48:02 1998

Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 16:45:40 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Craig Kattner wrote:

> > Use ftp and grab the newer version of the XFree rpm's you use.
> > Then upgrade them into your system and reboot:
> >
> > # rpm -Uvh XFree*.rpm
> > # shutdown -r now
> >
> Reboot? For what reason? About the only time a reboot should be needed is
> if you are switching kernels...

I stand corrected.
Guess I have developed silly habits from working with IQ95.

You will have to at least shutdown and restart X though,
and kill xdm if it's running, as in run level 5.

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