Reboot or init 6.

[Brendan Donegan]

On 28/11/12 06:59, Carla Sella wrote:
> I use shutdown -r now.
> I'm used to UNIX, so I got this habit, in SCO UNIX it used to be 
> shutdown -g0.
I also use shutdown now -r
>
> Carla Sella
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>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:PhillW at ubuntu.com>> 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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