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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Rebooting Sys V/386
Keywords: shutdown reboot autoboot
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.173232.1409@virtech.uucp>
Date: 28 Mar 91 17:32:32 GMT
References: <419@srs.UUCP> <563@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) writes:

>/etc/uadmin won't help there, because it only works from the console. However
>the system call should work. It takes two arguments (command + function), which
>are defined in /usr/include/sys/uadmin.h. Not having the documentation at hand
>I guess it should be uadmin(A_SHUTDOWN, AD_BOOT) for you.

You don't want to do this because uadmin(2) only attempts to unmount root
and then locks up the system.  No other file systems are unmounted, no
SIGTERMs are sent to processes, so the system will end up quite messed up 
when you do reboot it.

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