Victor Odhner wrote:
> 
> George Toft wrote:
> > ... the only time I have had problems in a reboot
> > was when the power cord was pulled.  The next
> > reboot had some problems, but I didn't detect
> > them for over a day.  I was still able to log
> > in, did an init 6, and then all was fine.
> 
> I may be confused here:  Doesn't Init 6 bring up
> the network?  So how did you log in to do that?
> Or was that when you had to hook up a keyboard?

If I'm not mistaken*  with Redhat**, the common runlevels are:

1 single-user mode, no network
3 console, multiuser, network
5 GUI
6 reboot

so an 'init 6' would to be analogous to 'shutdown -r now'.

* I'm very low on coffee just now
** Others dists probably define it differently

Steve