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Asked: 2011-01-04 03:46:41 +0800 CST

Show command prompt on reboot

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In one of my linux machines, when i give reboot command at the shell command prompt then press enter, i get another command prompt and then the system reboots.

$reboot
$

But in one of my office Linux machines, when i give the reboot command, it suddenly reboots without showing another shell command prompt

What could be the reason for this? I need the first behavior to be present in my office machine also. Kindly tell me where i should tweak my office machine.

Thanks

linux command-line-interface shell

1 Answers

  1. I assume your first describes linux box has a timeperiod set to wait before doing the actual reboot. To get to now more about the shutdown/reboot process in your linux distro, take a look at man shutdown. It will explain, where the configuration is placed.

    In my distribution, SUSE, these are some files which are part of the shutdown process:

    • /etc/inittab
    • /etc/init.d/halt
    • /etc/init.d/reboot
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