From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 0:15:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.dsl.visi.com (kirk.dsl.visi.com [209.98.248.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B2837B6F4 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgl@visi.com) Received: from localhost (dgl@localhost) by kirk.dsl.visi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA05435; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 02:14:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dgl@visi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.dsl.visi.com: dgl owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 02:14:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Lee To: Yonatan Bokovza Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: reboot damage control In-Reply-To: <00BF97DD9F3FD311AB860060084E50DD311BCC@exchange.xpert.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should be able to reboot by typing Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console keyboard, which will sync before restarting. As far as I know, that does exactly what the `reboot' command would do. On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Yonatan Bokovza wrote: > Due to a weird problem, i lost all ability to go root. > No login, no su, no network connnectivity, nothing but > physical reboot and going single-user will help. I'm logged > as a normal user, and since i'm not root i can't "shutdown" > or "halt" or "sync" anything. The thing is i want to minimize > the damage of hardware reboot. Is there anything i can do as > normal user to flush memory buffers, close important files etc? > The system in mention is 4.1 relase with generic kernel. > > And just for interest, where would linux compare in this field? > > Thanks in Advance, > Yonatan. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message