From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 08:05:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00427 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00418 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01852; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:04:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:04:22 -0400 (EDT) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Keith Woodworth 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 On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Keith Woodworth wrote: > > > 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: You simply brought it down to single user mode. This is all documented in the init(8) manpage. In fact you cannot "kill" init. Try "kill -KILL 1" and see what happens. Nothing. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message