2 more Q's about 386/ix

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <S4NKS- at utower.gopas.sub.org>, fischer at utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) writes:
> jonm at syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan Meyer) writes:
> >Is it possible to run shutdown from anything other than the console VT?
> >Sometimes I would like to be able to reboot my system safely from a remote
> >login, but can't.
> 
> Easy:
> 	- login from remote
> 	- make yourself root (via "su" or whatever)
> 	- cd / ; sync ; sync
> 	- /etc/init 0

This does not work for 386/ix.  Init will tell you that you must be
on the console to run "init 0".  The best solution is to run
/etc/shutdown -g0 -y (or /etc/init 0) < /dev/console



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