Jeff asks: > Perhaps Stan can elaborate on the relative risk of an arbitrary reboot. It's like a system failure (without the console message!), followed by a control-B TC ... so nothing is posted to disk first, no cleanup done... that's why I almost never do it. I've used it maybe once in the last year, when I was at home and needed to reboot a partially hung machine (which had an AUTOBOOT setup) ... and I wasn't particularly concerned about shutting it down nicely. If I had a Jeff-like telnet/console setup, I'd have used it. As Lee pointed out, the TC is necessary if you want to take a dump. Still: the _reboot_cpu trick is not recommended, but possible. -- Stan Sieler [log in to unmask] http://www.allegro.com/sieler.html