Re-Read inittab?

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike at illiana.net]

> Jonathan, read the man page for the init command.  This is 
> the command you're looking to use.

Sigh.  I was being lazy, I'll admit it.  I had at least done a quick scan of
the man page, and missed the relevant portion.  In penance, I will explain:

I have a Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) switch that uses Ctrl-Alt-Shift then a
number to switch consoles.  Invariably, I find myself pressing
Ctrl-Alt-Delete instead, and rebooting the server.  So I wanted to change
the "ca::ctrlaltdel..." entry in /etc/inittab to allow myself to recover
(shutdown -t5 -r +1), and having already taken the server down once
unscheduled didn't want to have to reboot to load the new command.

The answer I was looking for, by the way, was "init q", which I got out of
some helpfile I can't seem to find again.

You can use either "init" or "telinit" interchangeably.  To understand why,
I do recommend actually reading the most excellent man page - one of the
better man pages I've seen.

Thanks!