bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) (11/21/88)
An article I posted earlier asks if anyone knows how to make run levels 5 or 6 work with AT&T 386 UNIX. On page 51 of the release notes there is a write up on how to reboot from remote. Since that was *exactly* what I wanted to do, I tried it. DON'T DO it! If you do exactly what it says a number of bad things will happen to you, not the least of which is that it won't reboot. The uadmin function by itself will not unmount file systems and umountall -k won't kill processes that have file systems busy. I don't care what the book says. The most severe consequence is that if you have a bootwait entry in inittab and it can't get finished, you can't reboot at all. In every case I tried a hard reset was required to reboot which defeats the purpose of a remote reboot. Further, the file systems that were left busy (because umountall -k doesn't work) are not as healthy as fsck would have you believe. I was able to recover them by running fsck from the boot floppy, but it made for a very long afternoon which culminated in having to make a new kernel as well. -- Bill Kennedy usenet {killer,att,rutgers,sun!daver,uunet!bigtex}!ssbn!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM