Running init not from console?

[uunet!bria!mike]

In an article, apt.bungi.com!brian (Brian Litzinger) writes:
>I've written a daemon called 'pwatchd' which does just this when
>it is sure the power is out.  However, 'init' just says:
>
>    init must be run from the console
>
>So what do I have to do to get init to do what I want rather
>than what it thinks is best?

You change runlevel by sending an appropriate signal to the init process,
not by invoking another one.  The "appropriate" signal can vary from
system to system, so you'll need to check out your manual pages on INIT
to proceed along this path.  However, why not simply do something like
this:
		sync; sleep 2; /etc/haltsys

Some may argue that it's crude, but I rather like it.
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