On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 2:06 am, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:09:20 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like paper. I print out man pages, HOW-TOs, TWiki pages <g> > > and everything else that seems to help. I buy books, too. I > > posted a question about symlinks some time ago because I had > > followed the instructions in the expensive (£3O) book, and it > > didn't work. In fact the instructions in the FM were completely > > wrong, and I had been completely mislead by R'ingTFM. > > <Snip> > > > Anne > > OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to > powerdown is use three finger salut. > > Why not use shutdown or reboot -now????? > > Is that wise (rutes suggestion..) or out of date? > Hi, Femme. Not sure I see the connection with the quote above <g>, but...
If I want to shutdown from cli, I always use shutdown -h now (for shutdown) or shutdown -r now (for reboot). Old fashioned - I know there are some new-fangled ways to avoid typing so much <g>, but I feel safe knowing exactly what I have told it to do. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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