From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 10 6:50:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [205.252.34.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4793C37B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 06:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [205.252.34.3]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7F32E443 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:50:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9ADoUm78599; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:50:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.7846.658046.316300@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:50:30 -0400 (EDT) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: effective use of serial console In-Reply-To: <014201c03214$885aa330$524c8486@jking> References: <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com> <014201c03214$885aa330$524c8486@jking> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "JK" == Jim King writes: JK> I use reboot(8) or shutdown(8). On RARE occasions I have to call JK> the guy at my colo and have him intervene physically. Right... I just was trying to avoid having to do that if the shutdown hung for some reason, or the system was locked down too busy or some such. Having a clean reboot hot-key would be preferable to a hardware reset since the disks would avoid needing an fsck, which would take a *long* time on some of the boxes. ;-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message