On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, McKown, John wrote: > How does one do this? Logging in as SERVICE and looking at the > selections in Gnome didn't seem to have a way to shutdown the Linux > system. I remembered that some Linux systems will shutdown if you tap > the power button quickly. On the 2105, this crashed Linux and it had to > do an fsck() due to a dirty /. >
Well, since I am (still) not a mainframer, so we can have this subtle problem with naming things, but if I read you correctly then what you actually want to do is: shutdown -h now (shuts down Linux permamently, needs to be booted "by hand") or shutdown -r now (reboots - the system will [should] get up by itself) Both commands should be issued by root. In gnome, you need to start some kind of terminal (look for words rxvt, xterm, konsole, terminal in menu). Once in a terminal, simply type one of the above. I assume that you are root, if not - either log in as root or use sudo or su - but let's assume you are root. If this is not the answer, sorry for noise. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
