john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) (09/03/90)
Last night, I managed to get my ESIX console hung up. I couldn't switch screens, and anything I typed was ignored. So I went to my terminal to shut the system down. 'shutdown' told me it had to be run from the console, as did 'init 0.' So I tried 'init s'. This got me to an ENTER RUN LEVEL: prompt. I typed '0' and the system shut down. This seemed a bit odd since I couldn't directly do an 'init 0' -- some sort of bug or a security hole? The problem is that doing the init 0 from the terminal printed the message '/dev/syscon switched to tty02' (or something close) at the console and from that point on, certain console messages would appear at the terminal. Running 'tty' from the terminal printed '/dev/syscon' rather than '/dev/tty02'. I ended up shutting the system down again from the console to get syscon back where it belonged. Is there a better way to do this? (Sorry if this is an RTFM question -- Prentice Hall has my manuals backordered till no earlier than October! Does anyone know of a source where I can get them *now*?) -- John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)