Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 2 more Q's about 386/ix
Keywords: displays, shutdown
Message-ID: <1989Dec16.044224.19901@druid.uucp>
Date: 16 Dec 89 04:42:24 GMT
References: <1910@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1910@syma.sussex.ac.uk> jonm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan Meyer) writes:
>Two quick questions -
>
>I have both VGA and MDA cards + monitors. In DOS I can run both, switching
>using the mode command. Can I do this for 388/ix?
>
>Is it possible to run shutdown from anything other than the console VT?
>Sometimes I would like to be able to reboot my system safely from a remote
>login, but can't.
>
>jon

Try "shutdown -y < /dev/console"

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