On 08/09/2011 04:50 AM, Dave Howorth pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Carlos Frederico Lange wrote:
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Marc Chamberlin<marc@marcchamberlin.com> wrote:
I ssh'd into my home system as root without any problems. But when I give the command to reboot, nothing happens.. "shutdown -r now" also just gives a response saying the system is going down, but again it does not actually reboot!
Just tested from my desktop to my laptop and the command "reboot" works fine. Have you looked at the log files? "/var/log/messages" for example. To see which log files were written most recently run "ls -lrt".
I regularly use shutdown -h now via ssh on my systems and it works. You don't say what system you're running so I couldn't begin to suggest why yours doesn't. I don't see why it should be necessary to use magic incantations like init 6. I agree with what Carlos suggests.
Cheers, Dave
Magic incantation? No magic involved with init. ?And the -h in your command is used to halt/stop the system *not* reboot. init 0 - shutdown the system init 1-5 - go to the specified run level init 6 - reboot the system As I said, no magic involved only knowledge. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org