Rebooting Sys V/386

[Heiko Blume]

tmh at prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) writes:

>In article <419 at srs.UUCP>, dlucy at srs.UUCP (Doug Lucy) writes:
>|> Is there a way to force a sys V/386 3.2 system to reboot?
>|> I need to cause a reboot from a remote login after changing
>|> the kernel with idbuild. Is there a way to do this with
>|> just shutdown? Can it be done with a call to reset the system?
>|> 
>/etc/uadmin won't help there, because it only works from the console.

if you had asked a good unix admin, you'd have learned that you can
cause any terminal to become the console (syscon) by issueing 'init s'.

>Should the new kernel and configuration fail to reach init level 3, you are out
>in the cold, but I guess you know that...

if he doesn't login via tcp/ip level 2 will suffice. if he built a new
kernel he must make sure that the new /etc/inittab makes init respawn
a getty on the port to be used, too (see idmkinit(1M)).
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