Restart window server via command line

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Does anyone know how to restart the window server through the command line? Or maybe just the Finder. Mine keeps locking up on a remote machine with no monitor, but SSH still works. I want to try and restart the Finder or window server remotely to see if that fixes it instead of having to keep restarting it.

Something's wrong with it since it keeps freezing but with Tiger coming next week I don't want to reinstall anything now.
 
Try "sudo killall WindowServer" and see if that helps. That looks like the first process spawned by init that handles the GUI.
 
Don't know. Find out. ;-) I would hope init is smart enough to notice when the process dies and restart it, but that remains to be seen.
 
Well, you could always try killing the Finder first, then if that doesn't work kill the windowserver.
 
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