Re: shutting down (was Re: linux/unix?)

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From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00

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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:46:22 GMT, Dave Fitch <david@spiral.matra.NOSPAM.com.au> wrote:
>zzppham@dingo.cc.uq.edu.au (Robert Paul Pham) writes:
>>Nah.....the only trouble I had was I didn't know how to shutdown at the
>>start :-) and ctrl-alt-del was how I used to shutdown for at least a month
>>:-) but Linux happily rewrote my partition table :-).
>
>What's wrong with doing cntrl-alt-del to shutdown?? it runs the
>shutdown script in /etc/rc.d.  Is there a better way?
>

If you do it as root, it shuts down to single user mode in 
some distributions (redhat picasso).

If you do it as non-root it shuts down all the way and reboots.

Zebee

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