rebooting a remote FC3 system

[Arpit Patel]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:56:07AM -0700, bruce wrote:

>> bill...
>> 
>> i'm pretty sure it 'reboots', ie, the remote system has the user/passwd
>> prompt.. i put a dummy character in the user... i go to my system that i'm
>> using to ssh into the box. i do a 'reboot' and i see that the remote screen
>> no longer has the 'dummy char' in the user.. if i'm fast enough, i can
>> actually see part of the reboot process..
>> 
>> but i still have the network connection issue that i mentioned....
>> 
>> if i stand at the machine, and physically power it down/hit the reboot
>> switch, everything works ok..
>> 
>> -bruce
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Have u tried using the init command, it will shutdown/restart everything. to use it u have to login as root and type

init 0
init 6

init 0 for shutdown and init 6 for restart, if this doesnt work then please post the error message when the computer hangs while restarting.

Arpit