The -q option skips the broadcast Quit messages, so if app_server/registrar has gone nuts (or you removed it from the Bootscript ;)) you still can reboot/halt :) En réponse à Cedric Degea <cdegea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >if you have LILO, you can do > . > >shutdown -r -q > >so it reboots without quitting every app (I suppose it only syncs, > >killteam(foreach team), then reboot). > > /bin/shutdown communicates with the registrar, just sends it > a particular BMessage, and this roster in turn does the "quit > requested" thing with all regsitered BApplications. > > (and the "tidying things up a bit" label probably maps > to a sync() indeed since I've typically seen it stick long > enough on screen to be readable, when I had lots of recent > disk activity only). > > -- > http://cdegea.free.fr/ | BeDev E-16870 > "What's oil got to do, got to do with it" -- F02 Chorus > > > >