From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 23:38:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02309 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:38:51 -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 XAA02289 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from mybsd.net (citytelprct71.citytel.net [204.244.99.24]) by rosencrantz.citytel.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19545; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mybsd.net (mybsd.net [192.168.0.2]) by mybsd.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA16439; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:30:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth 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: > > 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... A follow-up here...got home and the console said enter path to sh or hit return for sh: Hit return and I'm at a sh prompt. So I diddle about a bit, everything is still mounted and running, init is still going with about 5 other process's but thats about it so it dropped to single user I guess. Do a quick man init and find that a ^D will start everything up again. Sure enough it does and I'm right back to where I was. Current up time is over 30 days for this machine and really didnt want to reboot. Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message