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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need Help to Reboot to Mac OS X Post 302118212 by philomaximus on Sunday 20th of May 2007 11:22:26 AM

05-20-2007

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Originally Posted by porter

Are you at a shell prompt at a console?

Are you able to either log in as root or su to root?

Can you run "ps -ef" to show all processes running?

Have to tried "shutdown -h now" to power down the box down cleanly.

Can you run "top" and see what's busy?

Hello! Just so you know, I am even newer than a newbie, so you'll have to talk to me like I'm five.

Yes, I'm at a shell prompt.

I tried logging in with my system name and password, but it came up as incorrect.

I typed in the "ps -ef" and this is what I got: ps: illegal option --f usage: ps [-aChjlmMrSTuvwx] [0|o fmt] [-p pid] [-t Hy] [-U user] [-N system] [-W swap] ps [-L]

Shutdown -h now works -- yea! I didn't know how to do that before.

Top brings up a bunch of stuff. Top line reads Processes: 5 total, 2 running, 3 sleeping.

I am also able to change directories and see that my folders and files are still there.

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reboot

REBOOT(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 REBOOT(8)

NAME

       reboot - reboot the system immediately

SYNOPSIS

       reboot [-f]

DESCRIPTION

       Reboot  can  be	used  to  reboot  the  system  after  installing a new kernel.	It does not inform the users, but does log it's actions in
       /usr/adm/wtmp and /usr/adm/authlog.  The system is then rebooted with the reboot(2) systemcall.

       If the -f flag is not given then all processes are sent terminate signals to give them a chance to die peacefully before the reboot() call.

       If the wtmp file exists, reboot logs itself as if it were a shutdown.  This is done to prevent last(1) from talking  about  system-crashes.
       Reboot is registered as is in the authlog file.

       Reboot can only be executed by the super-user.  Any other caller will be refused, either by reboot(8) or by reboot(2).

SEE ALSO

       reboot(2), shutdown(8), halt(8), boot(8).

BUGS

       The  error message's given by reboot are not always useful.  There are several routines that can fail, but which are not fatal for the pro-
       gram.

AUTHOR

       Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)

																	 REBOOT(8)