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Date:      Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:02:38 -0500
From:      Tim Erlin <listmail@filn.net>
To:        Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fast partial reboot?
Message-ID:  <42A4658E.5090508@filn.net>
In-Reply-To: <p06210257beca06efd05b@[10.20.30.249]>
References:  <p06210257beca06efd05b@[10.20.30.249]>

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Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. Under 5.x, is there a way to quickly reboot FreeBSD if
> I'm not sitting at the console? I want the equivalent of, if I were
> sitting at the console, 'shutdown now' followed by specifying '/bin/sh'
> followed by 'exit'.

Paul,

Sounds like you're looking for 'shutdown -r now'

You might check the man page for shutdown to verify that's what you
want. There's also 'fastboot' or 'reboot' which doesn't notify users and
cleanly terminate running processes.

--Tim Erlin




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