From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 10:05:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7EE16A4CE for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 10:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 492DB43D70 for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 10:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 28582 invoked by uid 65534); 8 May 2004 17:05:36 -0000 Received: from p5090C1B5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.de) (80.144.193.181) by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 08 May 2004 19:05:36 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1954550 Message-ID: <409D13DF.6020307@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 19:07:43 +0200 From: "Ph. Schulz" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Hoffman References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not needing the console for a system reload X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 17:05:39 -0000 > > Is there a way to give a "shutdown now; ; exit" command > from the command line if I'm logged in remotely? Or do I really need to > use "reboot" and go through the whole hardware reinitialization? > I don't think this is possible. The reason is (if I understand things correctly) that if you're in single user mode, the network isn't started, so there's no way of accessing the machine through ssh, rlogin or something similar. I think you're best off if you hook up a serial console to your machine and remotely access that console. There are commercial solutions for this but any low-end PC will do. Phil.