Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 10:45 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > 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 clo

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:15, Margot wrote: > From the messages I received, I can't even determine the species, let > alone the sex! Could be female I suppose, but as most of the people who > upset me are male, I just naturally assumed. Hey - that's cool - and understood - but we can't assi

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-03 Thread Margot
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:24, Margot wrote: I've just read through the rest of my mail, and seen that everyone has been getting these - I hope that M J Pipkin never needs help from the newbie list, because we're all killing him before his messages get through! Isn't it bad

RE: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-03 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Sorry for the receipt again, just seen Margot has got one as well. -Original Message- From: Tony S. Sykes Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:10 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: RE: [newbie] command for rebooting in win wtf has anybody else got an email like this? -Original Message

RE: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-03 Thread Tony S. Sykes
wtf has anybody else got an email like this? -Original Message- From: M J Pipkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 9:18 AM To: Tony S. Sykes Subject: Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win This is unsolicited spam and an invasion of my privacy. Please send no

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:38, Eric Huff wrote: > > > I use "rebootin windows" as root. See man rebootin. > > > Hey! That's bloody brilliant, Mr. Olsson! I've never even known > > about that command! Dang! Learn something new every day! > > Holly sh*t! That's a real command. I thought for sure he

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:56, Björn Olsson wrote: > Spare yourself the horror and take my word for it - it works. > > Björn Well, I thought it was magical - so I tried rebootin OS2 - System Relic rebootin BeOS - System Buried rebootin SCOUNIX - System Silly rebootin XENIX - System Nonexistent re

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Eric Huff
> > I use "rebootin windows" as root. See man rebootin. > Hey! That's bloody brilliant, Mr. Olsson! I've never even known > about that command! Dang! Learn something new every day! Holly sh*t! That's a real command. I thought for sure he was joking... -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: htt

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:00, Anne Wilson wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 07:15, Björn Olsson wrote: > I use "rebootin windows" as root. See man rebootin. > > > Björn Hey! That's bloody brilliant, Mr. Olsson! I've never even known about that command! Dang! Learn something new every day! Unfortunately, I don't have anything on this machine to r

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:00, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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, ret

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Björn Olsson
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:11:41 +0300 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Björn Olsson wrote: > > >On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows > >>directly from a console? Right now to do

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Anarky
Björn Olsson wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 reb

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Björn Olsson
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Anne Wilson
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, wi

RE: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Command works fine for me. 8.0 8.1 9.0 9.1 9.2 rc2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win Anarky wrote: > is there any way I could g

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 "rebo