Jason Dixon wrote: > On Mar 29, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Vaneet Sharma wrote: > >> Thankx. >> >> Some info: sometimes a programmer has to do work of system administrator >> , and hence due to time and deadlines, it was better for me to ask from >> mailing list rather than searching and then doing trial and error > > > We all experience time and deadlines, your time is no more valuable > than ours. I suggest you browse over to Red Hat's site and review > their RHEL documentation, it is quite good. > When it comes to computers, we are all 'STUPID', just at different levels. Me, I've for years (RH5.1) been using shutdown -r now and I've learned of other methods today. Also, one never knows, this fellow could be the person who has written or may be an expert with a particular package we use everyday. To him, any question we ask about that package would well..... seem stupid. Whatever... we've wasted way more bandwidth/time talking about it than the question ever caused. ;) John Hinton