Re: Shudown And Restart Issue

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Saturday 05 November 2016 18:15:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> 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

Crazy, never ever heard of it, my dear lady.  And this reboots? or shuts 
down?

Thanks Lisi.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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