Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!einoed!utopia!thomax From: thomax@utopia.uucp (Thomas Kaulmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: 2 more Q's about 386/ix Keywords: displays, shutdown Message-ID: <1989Dec20.133519.28167@utopia.uucp> Date: 20 Dec 89 13:35:19 GMT References: <1910@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Organization: Utopia Research Center (PR - public part) Lines: 17 fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) writes: >jonm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan Meyer) writes: >>Is it possible to run shutdown from anything other than the console VT? yes, it is! >Easy: > - login from remote > - make yourself root (via "su" or whatever) > - cd / ; sync ; sync > - /etc/init 0 wrong! use a `init 6` instead and it will work! thomax -- . |SE| thomas kaulmann 1000berlin61 alexandrinenstr.42 / //_ __ _ _ __ |OR| Bang: ..!unido!tmpmbx!einoed!utopia!thomax /_//_ /_//_///_/_ R.C.|FA| Domain: thomax@utopia phone# +49 30 614 6641 ________/_____________|TW| Fax# +49 30 392 92 52 phone# +49 30 390 80288