NAME
reboot - reboot the system immediately
SYNOPSIS
reboot [-f]
DESCRIPTION
Reboot can be used to reboot the system after installing a
new kernel. It does not inform the users, but does log it's
actions in /usr/adm/wtmp and /usr/adm/log. The system is
then rebooted with the reboot(2) systemcall.
If the -f flag is not given then all processes are sent ter-
minate signals to give them a chance to die peacefully
before the reboot() call.
If the wtmp file exists, reboot logs itself as if it were a
shutdown. This is done to prevent last(1) from talking
about system-crashes. Reboot is registered as is in the log
file.
Reboot can only be executed by the super-user. Any other
caller will be refused, either by reboot(8) or by reboot(2).
SEE ALSO
reboot(2), shutdown(8), halt(8), boot(8).
BUGS
The error message's given by reboot are not always useful.
There are several routines that can fail, but which are not
fatal for the program.
AUTHOR
Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)