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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Rebooting Sys V/386
Keywords: shutdown reboot autoboot
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.183438.14033@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 27 Mar 91 18:34:38 GMT
References: <419@srs.UUCP>
Organization: Contributed Software
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dlucy@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?

'init 6' will shutdown the system cleanly and reboot *without*
waiting for a keypress. of course the floppy drive must be
open/empty.
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