Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 39811
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2005/9/22-23 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:39811 Activity:moderate
9/22    What's the safest way of restarting a sun machine when someone has
        the screen locked and you can't find that person? At least on these
        suns, a stop-A; sync sometimes results in the machine asking for
        an fsck upon reboot. Also, I realize that a different screen locker
        with a logout option or maybe a script that kills the current X
        session would be more ideal, but the administrators here are lazy
        or something.
        \_ There is no safe way, without root.  On my clusters, rebooting
           the machine will get your account turned off.  -tom
           \_ Does anybody else laugh at tom upon reading things like this?
              \_ no kchang. go stick your head in a pig.
           \_ As long as there's no serious disk activity going on,
              there should be. Even if there is, there should still be, if
              your file system doesn't suck. I'm not sure how much solaris's
              UFS implementation sucks.
              \_ Rebooting multi-user machines has implications other than
                 whether the filesystem needs to be fsck'ed or not.  -tom
                 \_ True, but these users know they shouldn't stay logged
                    in anyway. These are essentially single-user machines
                    that interface to lab hardware. All I care about is that
                    the machine doesn't ask for the root password to fsck
                    upon reboot.
        \_ just accidentally trip over the power cord
        \_ Are you, by any chance, thinking of the Soda 2nd floor labs?
           There I think Ctrl-Shift-Blackspace will usually log them out.
           There I think Ctrl-Alt-Blackspace will log them out. -jrleek
           \_ Nope. If only.
           \_ On the SunRays, there's some key combination (Ctrl-Meta-Moon?)
              that will reboot the terminal. This is also occasionally useful
              for getting rid of the dreaded newt cursor. -gm
        \_ On my Sparc Ultra 5 at work, the power botton at the front
           gracefully shuts down the machine.
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