In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It does nothing. Just as if I typed nothing at all. The system doesn't hang;
>I'm still able to use it normally. But it doesn't reboot. I'm root too. I
>just did a kernel recompile but I've done a couple successful ones recently
>and I've gotten pretty good at it so I don't think I messed up anything
>there. Any ideas? Thanks.

Did you remove, rename, recreate, or mess around with /dev/initctl?
That's a pipe that programs such as shutdown use to talk to init.

Mike.

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