What about the "halt" and "reboot" commands, they do the same thing. On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi Ron - great to have you on-board. If you're in to trouble-shooting > hardware probs then linux is for you. > > The w;ay to close linux is by using the shutdown command. Hopefully > zipspeak is set up so that control-alt-del invokes this. The command is: > > shutdown -h now > > to halt the system. Use -r instead to reboot. > > Geoff. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >