various boot-related questions.

[Brendan Eich]

In article <41737 at sgi.sgi.com>, jmb at patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
> In article <1989Sep13.183918.8050 at helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, sysruth at helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Ruth Milner) writes:
> > I have also suggested that there should be a way for it to i) automatically
> > reboot after a crash, without depressing its belly button :-), and ii) have
> > it actually HALT after the shutdown sequence has completed, rather than
> > rebooting if you aren't there in time to press <ESC>.
> 
> The system will halt after the shutdown sequence if you shut down to init
> state 0, for instance 'shutdown -i0', or 'init 0'.

We ship BSD-like reboot(1M) and halt(1M) scripts that call shutdown with
enough arguments to get it to bounce the system and take it to the ground,
respectively.

Brendan Eich
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
brendan at sgi.com