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From: pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Rebooting Sys V/386
Keywords: shutdown reboot autoboot
Message-ID: <253@rwing.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 91 01:40:49 GMT
References: <563@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <1991Mar28.173232.1409@virtech.uucp> <570@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
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In article <570@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) writes:
>        [ lots of previous thread deleted ... ]
>I don't know
>whether the system call uadmin will in some variation do without the
>"press any key to reboot" prompt on the console or not. I didn't want to try.

There HAS to be some way to do the reboot without the hang on the
"press any key to reboot" msg: running fsck -b on the root partition
returns the msg SYSTEM WILL REBOOT AUTOMATICALLY, and the reboot
starts without requiring ANY user intervention, no pause for pressing
a key, or anything.  Probably whatever call fsck -b makes is what the
party wants...  perhaps some variant of the uadmin(2) call?
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