2 more Q's about 386/ix

[Karl Denninger]

In article <1989Dec19.002805.3039 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <S4NKS- at utower.gopas.sub.org>, fischer at utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) writes:
>> jonm at syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan Meyer) writes:
>> >Is it possible to run shutdown from anything other than the console VT?
>> >Sometimes I would like to be able to reboot my system safely from a remote
>> >login, but can't.
>> 
>> Easy:
>> 	- login from remote
>> 	- make yourself root (via "su" or whatever)
>> 	- cd / ; sync ; sync
>> 	- /etc/init 0
>
>This does not work for 386/ix.  Init will tell you that you must be
>on the console to run "init 0".  The best solution is to run
>/etc/shutdown -g0 -y (or /etc/init 0) < /dev/console

At least for us, the following works from any terminal if you are root:

init 5			# Power down and STAY down
init 6			# Reboot

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