Meino: > just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... > shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ...
$ ls -l /run/initctl prw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 16 21:50 /run/initctl| I.e. it is a named pipe, which you can use to tell init things, like to shutdown. # man init | grep -A2 SIGUSR SIGUSR1 On receipt of this signals, init closes and re-opens its control fifo, /dev/initctl. Useful for bootscripts when /dev is remounted. So, try "kill -SIGUSR1 1" to make init recreate that pipe. NOTE: If you use something else than sysv-init, the above might not apply. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57