2 more Q's about 386/ix

John Plocher plocher at sally.Sun.COM
Sat Dec 16 12:35:58 AEST 1989


+-- In <1910 at syma.sussex.ac.uk> 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.
+--

You can do either

	shutdown -mumble < /dev/console		# -mumble is stuff like -g0 -y ...
			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
or
	init 0		# shutdown and stay down
or
	init 6		# shutdown and reboot

  -John Plocher



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