Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 20:07:45 +0000 () From: francis yeung <fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: can't shutdown Message-ID: <199512292007.UAA01413@fyeung5.netific.com>
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Greetings, Due to some applications problems, I have to automatically reboot my BSD 2.0.5 system every 4 hours. I have setup a /bin/sh script to do "shutdown -r +1". The following messages were displayed after 1 minutes: Dec 27 20:31:32 sysx shutdown: reboot by root: Dec 27 20:31:35 sysx syslogd: exiting on signal 15 and then the system just hung there. It did not go into disk resync and reboot at all. I have also tried various ways shown below: - reboot - su << EOF /sbin/shutdown -r +0 EOF - etc And, all ends up with the same result - hung without going into disk resync and reboot. However, if I enter <ctrl><alt><del> on the console, the system will go into disk ...resync.... and then reboot ! Why ? Do the reboot and shutdown command need some kind of "tty" operation? I want to be able to reboot my system remotely. What do I have to do ? I have no problem doing halt, reboot and shutdown on the console, or in a rlogin or telnet session. but I can't use a script or system() call to do the same. Why ? Thank you for your help. Francis
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