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Re: Installer changes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Wed Nov 5 12:47:29 2008

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:46:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 2) If users install debathena-workstation, it should instruct them to 
> reboot, so that they get the Debathena login screen.  (Yes, I'm sure 
> there are other ways to kick gdm, such as restarting X, but rebooting is 
> the easiest and simplest way)

There’s no reason to force a reboot.  Just /etc/init.d/gdm reload; you 
won’t disrupt their work, and the changes will take effect as soon as they 
log out.

Anders


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