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Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?



On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:33:05PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:08:16PM -0500, Seneca insinuated:
> > You could CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, login there, and enter the
> > reboot command.  
> 
> you don't have to go to the console to do this, though -- is it
> "better" in some way?  i shut down my machine all the time from X ...

Not really, I'm just not sure how cleanly X/GNOME/whatever will shutdown
when they suddenly get a SIGTERM, followed by a SIGKILL from init.  If
it works for you though, then I guess it's all good.

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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