On 2012-11-28 00:45, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi, > > as there are times that machines in test mis-behave and we have (hopefully) > still got access to a terminal. Which of these do you use? > > "init 6" performs reboot in a clean and orderly manner,informing the daemon > of the change in runlevel,which subsequently achieves the appropriate > milestone and ultimately executes the rc0 kill scripts. > > "reboot" performs an immediate system reboot,does not execute the rc0 kill > scripts,simply unmounts file systems and reboots the System. It is not > recommended,especially when you are rebooting after a live-upgrade of OS & > any patch-updates ,etc. > > I'm not sure if "shutdown -y -i6 -g0" still is an option ( I used it many > years ago on restarting Unix systems but it is calling init 6) > > Regards, > > Phill. > What about
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