Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Eric Huff
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 or out of date? Anyways, when I've dropped out of X, I always use: shutdown -h now Don't know what

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:51:49 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to shut down is type: halt enter If you just want a reboot type:

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:51:49 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to shut down is type: halt enter If you just want a reboot type:

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:51:48 -0400 snicks Peter Schilling lives! grin Anyways, when I've dropped out of X, I always use: shutdown -h now Don't know what others do though See ya! --

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:06 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: 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 or out of date? ty Earth to Major Femme! Peter

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Pawel Nozderko
You can wrote in .bash_profile alias name=command it's simple alias quit=halt alias quit2=shutdown -h now :) 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

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 24, 2003 09:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: [..] ty. but...doesn't tell me if their method is right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what. Ty Femmily It's the same as with nearly anything in GNU/Linux Heather. There is nearly always

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:05, Eric Huff wrote: I always type use halt eric I use poweroff and reboot - they appear to work much more nicer than plug yank. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:27:18 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giant snip but...doesn't tell me if their method is right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what. Ty Femmily Irreverent, for sure. -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org I'm

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:20:31 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 24, 2003 09:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: [..] ty. but...doesn't tell me if their method is right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what. Ty Femmily

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:04:40 +0200 (CEST) Pawel Nozderko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can wrote in .bash_profile alias name=command it's simple alias quit=halt alias quit2=shutdown -h now :) OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to powerdown is use three

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 25, 2003 12:26 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: [..] I also am interested in the answer. Since installing 9.1, I haven't been able to shut down without shutdown now or ctl-alt-backspace. Didn't care because shutdowns are rare here. Anyway I've

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 25, 2003 12:47 am, Heather/Femme wrote: [..] choice on how to shutdown your comp isn't what I'm after. Just wanna know if doing ctrl-alt-del will shut it sown cleanly... I know it doesn't do it clanly for windows. Most often that

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 21:06, 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

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:01 am, Heather/Femme wrote: whos schilling? lol I was referring to a Bowie song. heh ty Femme Ah, my bad - I was thinking about Peter Schillings song Major Tom. You know, 4 3 2 1, Earth below us, drifting falling... (pardon my singing voice, its 7:11am

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Anne Wilson
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

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Anne Wilson
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

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 7:43 am, Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:27:18 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giant snip but...doesn't tell me if their method is right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what. Ty Femmily Irreverent, for sure. -- User

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-25 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 03:09:25 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /Snip No, it should not do any harm. If you watch the system you'll see that it will go through a normal reboot cycle using that shortcut. C. - - ty :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-24 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 24, 2003 07:06 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: [..] 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

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-24 Thread Heather/Femme
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

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-24 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to shut down is type: halt enter If you just want a reboot type: reboot enter It may all be outdated but it still works. It's what I use the rare