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Subject: Re: 10.3 and reboot -r (reroot)
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On 19.04.2016 15:06, Melissa Jenkins wrote:
> I've been trying to get reboot -r to work but get an error that kern.proc.pathname is undefined.  It then drops to single user mode.
> 
> Interestingly I've checked the value of kern.proc.pathname and it appears to be undefined on all the OS boxes we have from 9.3 up to current.  In fact the kern.proc tree doesn't appear to contain anything though it does exist at least on some of the boxes.
> 
> I haven't been able to find much about the kern.proc node except the source code, and there doesn't appear to be anything in the OPTIONS file that needs to be defined.  
> 
> This leaves me feeling like I'm missing something obvious!?
> 
> Can somebody please point me in the right direction?

You should show exact command you type and exact error message.