On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 5:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anarky wrote: > > is there any way I could give a command to reboot in > > windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to > > logout of the windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen > > and select reboot, win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind > > of shell command like "reboot win" and be the equivalent of that. > > thanks with anticipation > > Normally you can reboot from an Xwindow terminal after you su to > root. The command is "shutdown -r ....." > > MDK 9.0 and later gave me problems with this command. This command > did not give me clean reboot. I tried it with KDE and IceWM. > > The command did not give me any problems with any other *nix. > > Can other people tell us about their experience with this command > and MDK. > > Thanx, > > ayoub890
I have used shutdown -r now (and shutdown -h now) under both 9.0 and 9.1 withiout problems. Could your problem be because you didn't give it a timescale? It can be set to delay a short time, in order for other connections to be closed off. 'now' is required to make it immediate. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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