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- From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
- Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.071450.21542@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1992Dec29.013408.3676@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1992Dec29.023952.884@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:14:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.023952.884@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >
- >There are several different ways to shut down most unix boxes, linux amoung
- >them.
- >
- >shutdown on its own generally drops the system into single user mode. This
- >depends on which /etc/init you are running.
- >
- >'shutdown -r' reboots the system. If you don't have to let anyone know that
- >you are shutting down (ie. you are the only user) then "shutdown -r now" or
- >"reboot" will do things immediately.
- >
- >'shutdown -h' halts the system. "shutdown -h now" and "halt" are equivalent.
-
- Sorry, Tom, but none of those commands will reboot my system. The
- keyboard just goes dead and that's it until I press the hardware reset
- button. I have the 0.99 SLS installed on a Gateway 2000 486/33C (not the
- local bus!) and with the AnyKey keyboard. So, what gives?
-
- Joe
-