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From: izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 2 more Q's about 386/ix
Keywords: displays, shutdown
Message-ID: <4278@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:35:01 GMT
References: <1910@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <4844@dell.dell.com>
Reply-To: izen@cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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In article <4844@dell.dell.com> jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:
>In article <1910@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, jonm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan
>Meyer) writes:

>> 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

># init 6 < /dev/console
>will work I believe, also

>James R. Howard                
>cs.utexas.edu!dell!mustang!jrh

# init 5 </dev/console
also works, but the system doesn't take as long to reboot (at lease on my
compaq 386/20) becuase the system doesn't check out the memory before
rebooting.

Looking through the appropriate scripts reveals that 
init 0 eventually causes a uadmin 2 0 to be done <--- no reboot
init 6 eventually causes a uadmin 2 1 to be done <--- powerup reboot
init 5 eventually causes a uadmin 2 2 to be done <--- warm reboot
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