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.