From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 15:05:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04189 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:05:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from voyager.dreamhaven.net (qmailr@voyager.dreamhaven.net [208.234.113.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA04124 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:04:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 17612 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Jun 1998 22:04:32 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:04:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: kwoody@citytel.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oops, killed init In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 kwoody@abalone.citytel.net wrote: > I wanted to hup a process and was going to use -1 but forgot the - so I > killed init instead which logged me off of course. > > Now how BAD is it to do this? This was one of my home boxes so not really > a big deal but I wont know what happedned to the machine till I get home > in about 5 hours but want some idea on what state the machine might be in It will be in a state of confusion. :) Seriously, though, killing init basically brings your machine to a halt, since init is the master process. You'll probably have to hard-reset your machine when you get home, since init itself is what processes ctrl-alt-del, and since init isn't running... ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message