Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard L. Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue reboot it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft

shutdown -r instead of reboot? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Besides, it is good practice to use shutdown -r now instead of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls the command shutdown -r now for you. Could you please explain why? Thanks. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs *

Re: shutdown -r instead of reboot? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Besides, it is good practice to use shutdown -r now instead of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls the command shutdown -r now for

ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Richard L. Alhama
seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue reboot it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft reboot instead. then it reboots. Everything looks fine 'cept that the

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
Rich, Everything looks fine 'cept that the init process is doing itself twice everytime I boot. How do I fix this? Stupid question on my side: have you checked /etc/inittab? It should cointain: # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: # /etc/init.d executes the S

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Pere Camps wrote: Rich, Everything looks fine 'cept that the init process is doing itself twice everytime I boot. How do I fix this? Stupid question on my side: have you checked /etc/inittab? Yep they're similar, almost, except I'm on runlevel 5. I've

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
Rich, Stupid question on my side: have you checked /etc/inittab? Yep they're similar, almost, except I'm on runlevel 5. I've tried changing default runlevels, same thing. Sorry. No help available then. -- p.