In article <9501270500.AA00284@carbon.informix.com> jamesd@com.informix.com () writes:
I make myself root, and enter my root password. I type sync three times, and then type reboot. And lo, unix reboots.
Eventually, at long, long, long, long, long, last, Unix deigns to come back and give me some windows.
bad sucker -- that will teach me -- maybe next time I will type six sync commands before rebooting as a sacrifice to the great God unix in the vain hope that it will spare my data.
May I ask why you even bother re-booting? I never re-boot my machine unless there is a problem. I can go for MONTHS without re-booting. I have never used a DOS/Windows machine that could go more than a few days without having to be re-booted. My machine, if gracefully shutdown, boots in about 2 minutes. DOS, I think, would take about 30 seconds. About 25 seconds of both of those is POST (Power On Self-Test). ---------------------------------------------------------| | #include "std/disclaimer.h" Michael P. Brininstool | | mikepb@freke.lerctr.org OR mikepb@netcom.com | |---------------------------------------------------------