Re: Cancel Shutdown in progress (have 10 hours)

[Viorel Anghel <vang@AuctionWatch.ro>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:49:03AM -0230, Martin Marconcini wrote:
> Killall? That's not a valid command...

whatever, i came from linux too...
try 'ps auxw | grep shutdown' and kill that process

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martin Marconcini
> www.marconcini.com.ar
> 
> "Life must be lived looking forward and can be understood only looking
> backward." Soren Kierkegaard
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Viorel Anghel [mailto:vang@auctionwatch.ro]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:12 AM
> > To: Martin Marconcini
> > Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Cancel Shutdown in progress (have 10 hours)
> > 
> > 
> > killall shutdown ?
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:14:40AM -0230, Martin Marconcini wrote:
> > > Hi: been seeking the nmailing list w/keywords like "cancel
> shutdown",
> > > stop shutdown, etc... but no success.
> > >
> > > The question is :
> > >
> > > If I do
> > >
> > > Shutdown -h 0108072200 system is going down...
> > >
> > > Correctly prints
> > >
> > > *** System shutdown message from martin@jupiter ***
> > >
> > > System going down at 22:00
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > system is going down...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Now: shutdown manpage says that /etc/nologin is written and saves
> > > shutdown time and msg... I don’t have it (there is no /etc/nologin).
> > >
> > > And the real question is... how can I cancel a shutdown in progress?
> > >
> > > Under linux shutdown -c
> > >
> > > Man page under OPenbSD SAYS nothing about canceling it...
> > >
> > > Any ideas? (I have 10 hours to stop it) ;)