Re: "shutdown -r" instead of "reboot"? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >>Besides, it is good practice to use "shutdown -r now" instead >>of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls >>the command "shutdow

"shutdown -r" instead of "reboot"? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >Besides, it is good practice to use "shutdown -r now" instead >of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls >the command "shutdown -r now" for you. Could you please explain why? Thanks. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard L. Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now >init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue >"reboot" it coughs up something like: > >couldn't determine runlevel... doi

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
Rich, > > Stupid question on my side: have you checked /etc/inittab? > Yep they're similar, almost, except I'm on runlevel 5. I've tried > changing default runlevels, same thing. Sorry. No help available then. -- p.

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Pere Camps wrote: > Rich, > > > Everything looks fine 'cept that the init process is doing itself twice > > everytime I boot. > > How do I fix this? > > Stupid question on my side: have you checked /etc/inittab? Yep they're similar, almost, except I'm on runlevel

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
Rich, > Everything looks fine 'cept that the init process is doing itself twice > everytime I boot. > How do I fix this? Stupid question on my side: have you checked /etc/inittab? It should cointain: # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: # /etc/init.d executes the S

ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Richard L. Alhama
seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue "reboot" it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft reboot instead. then it reboots. Everything looks fine 'cept that the i