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[Carla Sella <carla.sella@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use shutdown -r now.
I'm used to UNIX, so I got this habit, in SCO UNIX it used to be shutdown
-g0.

Carla Sella
email: carla.sella@xxxxxxxxx
https://launchpad.net/~carla-sella



On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as there are times that machines in test mis-behave and we have
> (hopefully) still got access to a terminal. Which of these do you use?
>
> "init 6" performs reboot in a clean and orderly manner,informing the
> daemon of the change in runlevel,which subsequently achieves the
> appropriate milestone and ultimately executes the rc0 kill scripts.
>
> "reboot" performs an immediate system reboot,does not execute the rc0 kill
> scripts,simply unmounts file systems and reboots the System. It is not
> recommended,especially when you are rebooting after a live-upgrade of OS &
> any patch-updates ,etc.
>
> I'm not sure if "shutdown -y -i6 -g0" still is an option ( I used it many
> years ago on restarting Unix systems but it is calling init 6)
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
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