[openbeos] Re: rebooting remotely on beos

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:45:04 +0200 (MEST)

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).
> 
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