On Saturday 05 November 2016 17:55:49 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 November 2016 13:17:23 emetib wrote: > > With apologies for busting into your thread here, this is very > informative because its lost in the sands of nearly 2 decades of runing > linux in my wet ram, however at least one time, I need to force an > e2fsck -y as it reboots. And its on a pi-3 running debian linux, jessie > and up to date. And ATM no monitor at that stage of the boot, lacking a > female hdmi to dvd-i adapter. > > > you can also do as root > > > > # to reboot/restart > > telinit 6 > > > > # to shutdown > > telinit 0 > > Thank you for that magic invocation. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
# init 6 "tout court" works fine for me!! No doubt the difference is important, and I would be glad to know why one might need the tel- . Lisi
