From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 15:11:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05157 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (root@rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05054 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@abalone.citytel.net) From: kwoody@abalone.citytel.net Received: from abalone.citytel.net (kwoody@abalone.rupert.net [204.244.98.47]) by rosencrantz.citytel.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA04067; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: kwoody@citytel.net To: Bryce Newall 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, Bryce Newall wrote: > > 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... I was pretty sure that was all it did as I grabbed a few books off the shelf here and did a bit of reading on the subject. I thought that the machine might reboot instead...ah well live and learn. Thanks. Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message