Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, I'm quite a newbie to Linux and emerge mainly from a MS background. I love Linux and use it as my primary OS though. I have a question with regards shutting down Linux. When I shutdown Linux I go into tty1 and press Ctrl-Alt-Del. Now this shuts everything down including X and it's

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ACK!! Please remember, Linux is *not* Windows, and one of the examples of this is that Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't tell applications what it's doing. The *only* time that you should type Ctrl-Alt-Del is AFTER X is properly shutdown, and you have logged out

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Monroe
Is it OK to type 'reboot' in a console in X (such as Konsole)? Ian Monroe http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/ On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ACK!! Please remember, Linux is *not* Windows, and one of the examples of this is that

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe. Don't know. But it's not too hard to reboot using the standard KDE/Gnome logout method, or exit X and then do the 3FS. On Thursday 10 January 2002 01:22 pm, Ian Monroe wrote: Is it OK to type 'reboot' in a console in X (such as Konsole)?

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

2002-01-10 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Ian, Is it OK to type 'reboot' in a console in X (such as Konsole)? No, it's not. This has the same effect as hitting ctrl-alt-del on the first terminal: It sends all process the TERM signal and then the KILL signal, executes shutdown scripts and then reboots. Most important thing to