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Date: Tue,  5 Feb 2002 17:26:15 +0100
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Matt H wrote:
> If my machine is 150 miles away how will I press enter to tell it to boot
> from local & how is it possible to prevent the col-locators using it from
> the terminal. (not that I expect them to but ...)

Have you checked out reboot(8)?

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/reboot

It might not be _exactly_ what you want, but it might be a clue.