On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 00:30:34 -0600 Carlos Frederico Lange <carlosflange@gmail.com> 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".
Interesting ... On my 11.4 system "reboot" is symlinked to /sbin/halt: linux:/sbin # ls -al reboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 13 04:38 reboot -> halt In any case, I learned several years ago with SuSE to use the init system for ad hoc run level selections because it is tightly integrated into the distribution. For example, 'init 0' gracefully brings the system down and powers it off. 'init 6' does the same thing except the system is restarted (will boot to the default run level.) 'init 1' boots/drops to single user mode for certain maintenance items. 'init 2' gives you multiuser mode without networking. I'm sure you're already familiar with 'init 3' (run level 3) and 'init 5' (run level 5) regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org