Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 12:30:47 -0700 From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not needing the console for a system reload Message-ID: <p06100503bcc2e5939860@[10.20.30.249]> In-Reply-To: <409D13DF.6020307@gmx.de> References: <p06100533bcc2b5cf36f7@[10.20.30.249]> <409D13DF.6020307@gmx.de>
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At 7:07 PM +0200 5/8/04, Ph. Schulz wrote: >>Is there a way to give a "shutdown now; <use /bin/sh>; 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. Exactly right. That's why I want a script that starts the process while I'm logged in over the network, but finishes the process even after I'm kicked off. > 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. That is massive overkill for something that should be much simpler and hopefully not involve new hard ware. --Paul Hoffman
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