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Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?



On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I 
> can't figure out how I should reboot the thing.
> 
> It seems like I must be missing something extraordinarily easy here.

Certainly... go to another VT, log in as root, and type:

root@rei:~# shutdown -r now

You can look at the man page for shutdown to learn all the other neat
things it has to offer.

IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works to reboot
the machine.

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