Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 04:31:12 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: kwoody@citytel.net (Keith Woodworth) Cc: data@dreamhaven.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oops, killed init Message-ID: <199806230831.EAA03355@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980622232436.16435A-100000@mybsd.net> from Keith Woodworth at "Jun 22, 98 11:30:16 pm"
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Keith Woodworth wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Bryce Newall wrote: > > > > a big deal but I wont know what happedned to the machine till I get home > > > in about 5 hours but want some idea on what state the machine might be in > > > > It will be in a state of confusion. :) Seriously, though, killing init > > basically brings your machine to a halt, since init is the master process. > > You'll probably have to hard-reset your machine when you get home, since > > init itself is what processes ctrl-alt-del, and since init isn't > > running... > > A follow-up here...got home and the console said enter path to sh or hit > return for sh: > > Hit return and I'm at a sh prompt. So I diddle about a bit, everything is > still mounted and running, init is still going with about 5 other > process's but thats about it so it dropped to single user I guess. Do a > quick man init and find that a ^D will start everything up again. > > Sure enough it does and I'm right back to where I was. Current up time is > over 30 days for this machine and really didnt want to reboot. > That's the spirit :) You meant to do kill -1 3452 and instead did kill 1 3452 OK, you sent SIGTERM to init. It dropped to single user. This is what the man page suggests. All is well. That other process went bye-bye, though :) Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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