From: Caleb Epstein (cae@davidge.dds.com)
Date: 10/21/92 

From: cae@davidge.dds.com (Caleb Epstein)
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux from a prospective user.
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 22:12:32 GMT

curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>
>There's a shutdown program distributed, but it doesn't seem
>real flexible; it waits a couple minutes.
>
>Someone should do Unix-style shutdown and rc scripts.
>

    Huh? Shutdown works UNIX style for me. Try these:

        shutdown -r now # reboots system ASAP
        shutdown -h now # halts system ASAP
        shutdown -r +5 # reboots in 5 minutes 

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