Re: rebooting as user

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:02:14AM -0600, Mullins, Ron wrote:

> Please guys. How do YOU reboot, those of you who haft to. There has to be an
> easy way to let a DSU home user reboot while in transition. I don't want to
> hear, "I couldn't get anything done. You had the computer in Linux and I
> don't know how to restart it. Can't you just let me run Windows?"

To make life easy, I suggest to alter in /etc/inittab the line that tells
what to do on Ctrl-Ald-Delete: replace -r with -h and the machine will halt
on Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

Now tell everybody to do:

   step one   : Goto a non-grafical screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1,
   step two   : Stop the machine with Ctrl-Alt-Delete,
   step three : Wait for a line like "system halted" (check this),
   step four  : Turn the computer off or reboot with another Ctrl-Alt-delete.

Proven to be foolproof here; my wive makes no mistakes, my parents can
cope with it, and even the six year old youngest never made a mistake.

PS: be sure to check the line "system halted", there seem to be kernels
around that say something else.

-- 
groetjes, carel