[gdm-list] Reloading custom.conf settings without killing sessions

[Andrew Ziem <andrewz springsrescuemission org>]

Is there a way to immediately reload custom.conf settings (to enable 
timed login) without disconnecting active Gnome sessions?  Our system is 
a terminal server with many concurrent users, and we run GDM 2.14.8 on 
Fedora Core 5.

Reading the man page, gdm-safe-restart waits until all users are logged 
out.  Then, gdm-restart works immediately but is "unsafe."  Can't I have 
it all?  :)   I don't understand the details of the system, but it seems 
like it shouldn't be difficult.

IIRC, in the past I've tried 'killall -s SIGHUP gdm' (or something like 
that), and it disconnected everyone.


Andrew