On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:32 +0000, Dieter wrote: > Working on updating a amd64 box from 7.0 to 7.1. > A shell script called from rc.local hung. > (Still don't know why, works fine in 7.0, works > fine in 7.1 executed manually once system is up.) > Tried ^C, ^\, ^P and nearly every other key on the > keyboard. They echo, but nothing will interrupt > the hung process. I had to press the reset button. > > Back in the day, typing ^C on the console would > interrupt the boot process and give you a shell > prompt. How do I interrupt the boot process > with FreeBSD? > > Is there a way to have getty start before running > rc.local?
If a shell script traps the signals, there is nothing you can do except by calling a SIGKILL to the PID, which requires the system to be in Multi-User Mode. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
