[BusyBox] reboot not working?

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Sep 26, 2000 at 03:38:19PM +0800, omr wrote:
> >
> >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.

These are both features that should be added.  Could you
file two bugs?  One for "Make reboot/poweroff SysV compatible"
and a second bug "bb 'init q' should reread /etc/inittab".

Thanks,

 -Erik

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