[geeks] killall (virtually)

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:50:30PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Because "ShitTheBuildingIsOnFire" is too long... ;^)

See the old man page for REBOOT(8), and the -n option.

REBOOT (8) 

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NAME 
reboot - restart the operating system 

SYNOPSIS 
/usr/etc/reboot [ -dnq ] [ boot arguments ] 

DESCRIPTION 
reboot executes the reboot(2) system call to restart the kernel. The 
kernel is loaded into memory by the PROM monitor, which transfers control to 
it. See boot(8S) for details. 

Although reboot can be run by the super-user at any time, shutdown(8) is 
normally used first to warn all users logged in of the impending loss of 
service. See shutdown(8) for details. 

reboot performs a sync(1) operation on the disks, and then a multiuser 
reboot is initiated. See init(8) for details. 

reboot normally logs the reboot to the system log daemon, syslogd(8), and 
places a shutdown record in the login accounting file /var/adm/wtmp. These 
actions are inhibited if the -n or -q options are present. 

Power Fail and Crash Recovery 
Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes. 

OPTIONS 
-d Dump system core before rebooting. 

-n Avoid the sync(1). It can be used if a disk or the processor is on fire. 

-q Quick. Reboots quickly and ungracefully, without first shutting down 
running processes. 

Boot Arguments 
If a boot argument string is given, it is passed to the boot command in 
the PROM monitor. The string must be quoted if it contains spaces or other 
characters that could be interpreted by the shell. If the first character of 
the boot argument string is a minus sign `-' the string must be preceded by 
an option terminator string `--' For example: 

reboot -- -s 
to reboot and come up single user, 

reboot vmunix.test 
to reboot to a new kernel. See boot(8S) for details. 

FILES 
/var/adm/wtmp login accounting file 

SEE ALSO 
sync(1), reboot(2), boot(8S), fastboot(8), fasthalt(8), fsck(8), halt(8), 
init(8), panic(8S), shutdown(8), syslogd(8) 

-- 
Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX