Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:23:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson insinuated:
> IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works to
> reboot the machine.

so, say you're in charge of a server, and you or another sysadmin has
lost root, and you need to take it down in order to reboot into
single-user mode and reclaim root.  wouldn't CTRL+ALT+DEL be better
than just holding down the power button?  or are they equivalent?

</nori>

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