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

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <slrn5jei3m.uvh.zebee@zipper.zip.com.au>:
|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.

I don't know which version of initscripts you have in your RH but on my
RH systems that I've had: Picasso, Colgate and Vanderbilt (?), C-A-D
always shutdowns to reboot when run from anywhere. I believe the action
of C-A-D is customisable, but I have not had reason to change the
default.

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