Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!santra!mjolner!jnp From: jnp@mjolner.tele.nokia.fi (J|rgen N|rgaard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Why is /etc/reboot so unreliable? Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 89 11:29:23 GMT References: <8909291722.AA00609@civilgate.ce.uiuc.edu> <1989Sep30.214637.7921@quintro.uucp> Sender: news@mjolner.tele.nokia.fi Organization: Nokia Telecommunications Oy, Espoo, Finland Lines: 16 In-reply-to: kts@quintro.uucp's message of 30 Sep 89 21:46:37 GMT (System: DN3500/SR10.1/BSD4.3/ADUS X11R3) Okay, my experience is that reboot'ing from the DM is unlikely to work; ends with trashed screen. Cure: reset ! Run via rlogin's or xterm's work in more (>>90%) of the cases. Whereas shutdown -r doesn't in either case. -- -- -- | Regards, J|rgen N|rgaard ('|' is '\o{}' in \LaTeX{}) | | e-mail: jnp@tele.nokia.fi | telephone: <..>-358-0-511-5671 | -- mail: Nokia Telecommunications, PL 33, SF-02601 Espoo, Suomi Finland --