Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 02:14:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> To: Yonatan Bokovza <Yonatan@xpert.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reboot damage control Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008010212560.346-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com> In-Reply-To: <00BF97DD9F3FD311AB860060084E50DD311BCC@exchange.xpert.com>
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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
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