Not needing the console for a system reload

[Paul Hoffman]

Greetings again. Sometimes I want to do a "shutdown now; <use 
/bin/sh>; exit" to reload the upper layers of the system without 
doing a full reboot. If I'm not at the console, I can't do this, so I 
have to do the reboot, which takes much longer because of all the 
kernel loading and hardware probing.

Is there a way to give a "shutdown now; <use /bin/sh>; exit" command 
from the command line if I'm logged in remotely? Or do I really need 
to use "reboot" and go through the whole hardware reinitialization?

--Paul Hoffman