Re: Remote Reboot Fails

[Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Chris Alatakis wrote:

> Woorking in an openbsd Server some miles far away from me.
> OpenBSD --- 3.4 GENERIC#0 i386 --> Stable
> I have just recompile the kernel(GENERIC) and then try to reboot the box.
> 
> I saw even the reboot command as a process in my ps -aux output.
> But no reboot. Hitting  ^C gets my command promt back...
> 
> Am I going crazy?
> Any guesses?

shutdown will wait for processes to die.  sometimes this takes a while.  
how long did you wait?

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