[BusyBox] reboot not working?

omr omr at china.com
Tue Sep 26 07:38:19 UTC 2000


Bruno L. F. Cabral



00-9-23 17:20:00
>Hi there
>
>> > I'm using BB 0.46 with success. it's a great program! the only
>> > thing I can't make work is the reboot and poweroff commands.
>> > 
>> > whatever I do, they simply don't reboot the machine, nor
>> > control-alt-del
>
>(I didn't discover yet why control alt del wasn't trap by SysV's init
>ctrlaltdel action)
>
>as pointed out, reboot and poweroff only works if you're using BB's init
>and not SysV init (as I was). I modified my system to BB's init and 
>everything is working as expected, now.
>
>perhaps when BB_INIT isn't defined reboot/poweroff could act
>accordling to SysV INIT, if possible ...

BB's init can't reread the /etc/inittab file, so when I add lines
to inittab to add a ppp serial line. I must reboot all the system.
But sysV's init can use "init q" to do this.
I want to know , if I can make BB's init to reread and runing the
inittab file.

thanks

>I'd like to thanks all the help from you ppl
>Cheers,
>
>!3runo
>
>P.S. I noted that busybox --install prints out on STDERR "File already
>exists" messages for all files (including the ones that DON'T exist).
>Is it a known "feature"?
>
>
>
>
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