reboot(8) [minix man page]

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)

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REBOOT(2)							System Calls Manual							 REBOOT(2)

NAME

       reboot - close down the system or reboot

SYNTAX

       #define _MINIX_SOURCE 1

       #include <unistd.h>

       int reboot(int how, ...)

DESCRIPTION

       Reboot() is used to close down the system.  It allows several ways of shutting down depending on how:

       reboot(RBT_HALT)
	    Halt the system and return to the monitor prompt.

       reboot(RBT_REBOOT)
	    Reboot the system by letting the monitor execute the "boot" command.

       reboot(RBT_PANIC)
	    Cause a system panic.  This is not normally done from user mode, but by servers using the sys_abort() kernel call.

       reboot(RBT_MONITOR, code, length)
	    Halt the system and let the monitor execute the given code of the given length.  (code is of type char * and length of type size_t.)

       reboot(RBT_RESET)
	    Reboot the system with a hardware reset.

       Reboot() may only be executed by the super-user.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If the call succeeds, it never returns.	If something went wrong, the return value is -1 and an error is indicated by errno.

SEE ALSO

       shutdown(8), reboot(8), halt(8), sync(1).

NOTES

       Minix  can not return to the monitor if running in real mode, or if started from MS-DOS.  This means that most of the reboot functions will
       change to a reset.

AUTHOR

       Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)

																	 REBOOT(2)