[plug] How to force a shutdown with reboot??

[Brad Campbell]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:44:20PM +0800, Paul Arch wrote:
> 
> | On a side note, I don't know how many times I have typed reboot to take a
> | server down, and waiting for that associated beep to indicate
> | shutdown/reboot, but not hearing it.  Until realising I just rebooted
> | another server I was connected to via ssh  ! Man that can be a sinking
> | feeling
> 
> Yeah... or the other way around - I've typed "poweroff" before thinking
> that I was ssh'ed into a UML virtual machine but instead powered down
> the host machine... In this case you get exactly the same kind of
> output, until you notice the hostname on the shell prompt. :-/

Heres a wierd one.
You have two machines set up with serial consoles and by some strange 
quirk you are logged in to both of them.
You run minicom on one to log into the other machine, type shutdown and 
it gets echoed back to the console on the local machine. The local 
serial shell picks it up and both machines reboot.

Took me _ages_ to figure out why when I rebooted my ipaq over the serial 
console, my laptop rebooted as well. Disable laptop serial console and 
bingo. Problem solved.

How's that for a wierd one!

Brad

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