From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 22:16:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27618 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27604 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:16:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA27129; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:16:00 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: kwoody@citytel.net cc: Bryce Newall , 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 I made the same mistake on our shell machine once (Ooops! Root's the big stick!) and it rebooted. I'll put my money on reboot rather than halt... Charles Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 kwoody@abalone.citytel.net wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message