From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del Date: 29 Dec 1992 07:14:50 GMT
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